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" If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort. "

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" The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. "

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People

Happiness

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" Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. "

" The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Society

Past

" We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. "

" Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. "

" When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it. "

" The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. "

" Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. "

" Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war. "

" Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. "

Albert Camus

Difficult

Heroism

" Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. "

" Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. "

" Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. "

" What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? "

" Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. "

" An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. "

" A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. "

" An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules. "

" Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. "

" Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. "

" Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Success

Joy

Achievement

" A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. "

" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "

" Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. "

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

" Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. "

" You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. "

" Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. "

" Happiness is a direction, not a place. "