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 is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

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.

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.

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once read more

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.