Dalai Lama Quotes, Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

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The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Life Quotes , Happiness Quotes

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

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There are no rules for felicity.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

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I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

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Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.

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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

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