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We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even
Sep 10, 2025
I believe the ultimate aim of all human beings is to obtain happiness and a sense of fulfillment... I have always stressed the importance of combining both the mental and material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.
I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.
Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.
Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to perceive paradise gardening as a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we might go so far as to define this paradise as the place where art is indistinguishable from life, and where simplicity is codified as the best path for achieving happiness.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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