Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.