The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.