There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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.
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