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A contented mind is the atest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. A lifetime of happiness!No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on erath. A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distress. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, and self-denial, and study. l( V5 i. d9 f" k; k
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall not be disap-pointed. Call no man happy till he dies, he is at best but fortunate. s; j9 A u2 g4 K' N7 q$ @
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' garden. waimaozu@com Happiness is a butterfly, which ,when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. WAIMAOZU.COM
Happiness is a form of courage. Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead , now usually attributed by adults to children, and by childuren to adults. 外.贸.族 Happiness is a way station between too much and too little. 外贸族_WaiMaoZu.COM Happiness is not a goal, it is a by--product. Happiness is not something you experience; it's something you re-member. Happy is the man who is living by his hobby. Z# Q7 j9 Y& ^4 ^
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. $ m O7 B$ n+ l: Hope is itself a species of happiness which this world affords. Human felicity is produced not so much by at pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left. It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. 外贸族_WaiMaoZu.COM
Jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happi-ness and contentment. Man is the artificer of his own happiness. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. B8 \3 q, Y1 b7 c5 K- \
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far ater part of the members are poor and miserable. Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness. u& O$ I! One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes. Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pro-nounce him happy. u& O$ I! There ae two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and ,after that, to enjoy it , only the wisest of mankind achieve the sceond. The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. s; j9
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. WAIMAOZU.COM The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. p4 A% }+ w5 g5 B
There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. o8 e! I; h6
The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. p4 A% }+ w5 g5 B To fill the hour --- that is happiness. ~0 X) To really understand a man we must judge him in misforrune. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise. Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~0 X) We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. When pleasure is the business of life, it ceases to be pleasure. |