The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
We all want to live a happy life, so we have to learn to live together in trust and mutual respect. We do have differences of race, nationality, religious faith and so on, but these differences are secondary in comparison to our equality in being human.
We human beings are all the same in wanting to be happy and not wanting to suffer and yet many of the problems we face are of our own making.
We need to discover not only what disturbs our minds, but also what the antidotes to those factors are.
We need to learn to want what we have, not to have what we want, in order to get stable and steady happiness.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him. - Hans Christian Andersen
I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars. - Hans Christian Andersen
We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise. - Hans Christian Andersen
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