Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Confucius
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
Anthony de Mello
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”
Dalai Lama
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Aristotle
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
Seneca
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
Marcel Pagnol
“If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”
Joseph Addison
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”
Epictetus
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
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L.M. Montgomery
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
James M. Barrie
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
Dr. Robert Anthony
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
Aesop
“Happiness is acceptance.”
Unknown
