Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.
I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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