If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
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