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The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!
Oct 1, 2025
It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to reframe obligation as opportunity. You don't have to spend Thanksgiving with your family. You get to.
The secret to happiness is having low expectations.
The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.
I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.
Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness.
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Fill your hearts with love and gratitude. Life gives us what we need and not necessarily what we want. It follows its own wisdom, which is often incomprehensible to our gross minds. We should learn to accept situations in life. This attitude of acceptance is the secret to happiness.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.