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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
[Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste read more
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
[Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft
Ermattet endlich.]
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts,
and content with liberty, to despise all read more
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts,
and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et
libertate contentum negligere humana?]
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it read more
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.
Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we read more
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.