It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room ahs been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. . -Sharon Salzberg.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be read more
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
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
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Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, read more
If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, fleeting, and way too precious to waste waiting around for happiness to hit you over the head and make itself known. Happiness wasn't something you found, happiness was something you made - by living in the moment, by cherishing the people in your life right now, by finding the courage to change those things you didn't like
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds read more
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
He is rich who owes nothing.
He is rich who owes nothing.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power read more
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
