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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
[Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
Happiness seems made to be shared.
[Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down read more
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into read more
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.
'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;
His form was read more
'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;
His form was bent, and his gait was slow,
His long thin hair was white as snow,
But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.
And he sang every night as he went to bed,
"Let us be happy down here below:
The living should live, though the dead be dead."
Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in read more
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo.
Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue read more
Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.