We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
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