To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
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