Such is the Force of Happiness — The Least — can lift a Ton Assisted by its stimulus —
Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
Science will give us wisdom, wisdom will reveal the laws, and the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness.[Наука даст нам премудрость, премудрость откроет законы, а знание законов счастья – выше счастья.]
Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one’s fellow men.
People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
One of the surest ways to find happiness for yourself is to devote your energies toward making someone else happy. Happiness is an elusive, transitory thing. And if you set out for it, you willl find it evasive. But if you try to bring happiness to someone else, then it comes to you.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
