On Happiness
A person should so live that their happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. If you want to be cheerful and happy, act that way and you will soon find yourself becoming that way.
He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy. The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. - Unknown
Many people lose the small joys in the hope of the big happiness. - Pear S. Buck
We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness. - Robert Brault
With mindful breathing, mindful walking, and mindful dwelling in the present moment, we don’t need to consume and run after objects of craving in order to be happy. - Thich Nhat Hanh
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. - William James
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer
We get attached to temporary things, then wonder why our happiness never lasts. - Unknown
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. - Anais Nin
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. - Unknown
I’d far rather be happy than right any day. - Douglas Adams
We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets. - Ilona Andrews
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