What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections. - Bob Marley
The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy. - Michelangelo
Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. - Ayn Rand
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. - Ayn Rand
Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.
If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!
Individual happiness can contribute in a profound and effective way to the overall improvement of our entire human community.
One begins by identifying those factors which lead to happiness and those factors which lead to suffering. Having done this, one then sets about gradually eliminating those factors which lead to suffering and cultivating those which lead to happiness. That is the way.
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
So, if you think only of yourself, only your own happiness, the result is actually less happiness. You get more anxiety, more fear.
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