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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.