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" Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. "

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" Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful. "

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" Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it. "

" Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. "

" Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy. "

" No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. "

" I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. "

" There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. "

" I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. "

" The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. "

" Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. "

" Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. "

" Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. "

" Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. "

" Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. "

" There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. "

" There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. "

" Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. "

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

" There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. "

" Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places. "

" When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have. "

" I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself. "

" I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. "

" There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. "

" God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. "

" In a gentle way, you can shake the world. "

" The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. "

" My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. "

" The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. "

" Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? "