All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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 consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
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