The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
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.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.