We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.
As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.
Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't make you happy. You have to make yourself happy.
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