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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of read more
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of read more
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition read more
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what read more
Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple—yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
Happiness is an inside job.
Happiness is an inside job.
