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.
Joseph Addison
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AARON COHEN Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. THOMAS AQUINAS Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not a... CHANAKYA It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to ... TRACY KIDDER Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and ra... CONFUCIUS Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentl... JOSEPH ADDISON It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through ... PIET MONDRIAN A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness o... JAMES MADISON Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. ... ELLEN G. WHITE People tell me they have no idea what I am going through, but then feel they have a right to judge h... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Wisdom is not attained by the journey through life's circumstances and lessons learned, but rather, ... DEBORAH SIMPSON What Cato did, and Addison approved, Cannot be wrong EUSTACE BUDGELL Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance. THE LAWS OF MANU The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorou... CHARLES HORTON COOLEY Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons ha... ARISTOTLE Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ANTHONY BURGESS Purification of the mind is attained through humility, integrity and a sense of justice. SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Peace and security will not be derived through walls and through incursions and through assassinatio... SAEB ERAKAT We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentime... NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST Formidable power is granted through proved faith to that of which is worthy to handle what to do wit... JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ALBERT EINSTEIN Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not throu... THOMAS SZASZ Happiness is not the simple purpose of life but it is the ultimate purpose of all purposes of life. DEBASISH MRIDHA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculp... KABIR Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. ZORA NEALE HURSTON But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. MILAN KUNDERA The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually thr... ERNST JüNGER The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something... GEORGE WASHINGTON BURNAP Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. NAPOLEON HILL Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. NAPOLEON HILL What is attained by a developed thinking is not visions but spiritual sight of realities; what is at... RUDOLF STEINER Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Wa... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Live your dream and let your dream have life. Don't just live life; live and leave distinctive footp... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH But happiness is no respecter of persons. STEPHEN FRY The human race is on its road to self-destruction, and we wouldn't have it any other way. For we are... BREANNA CASELLA The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a g... BARUCH SPINOZA CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain."Cl... AMBROSE BIERCE A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday. NAVONNE JOHNS The true value of a human being can be found in degrees to which he has attained liberation from the... ALBERT EINSTEIN It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to e... ANUJ SOMANY It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN As you go through your journey of self-healing and self-discovery, it may seem like a long stretch o... TIFFANY L. JACKSON Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True ha... THICH NHAT HANH It's through delayed gratification that patience comes. SUNDAY ADELAJA What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happine... NATHANIEL BRANDEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The clarity of hindsight cannot be attained through advice. ARMAND SALMON I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natal... JAMIE BELL I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. JOHN MASON BROWN The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. WILLIAM COWPER Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a l... SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Circumstances can change through worldly knowledge (ignorance of the self, the Soul) and also throug... DADA BHAGWAN The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from ... ALBERT EINSTEIN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness... MANGO WODZAK Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has... ALBERT EINSTEIN Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead ot... BUDDHA ... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself... JERRY BRIDGES Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better. ROBERT F. KENNEDY Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. J. PETIT-SENN Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. JOHN PETIT-SENN Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. EPICURUS Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - in... AMBROSE BIERCE We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry ... NORA EPHRON There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpos... THORNTON T. MUNGER In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how man... MORTIMER J. ADLER In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how ... MORTIMER J. ADLER In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how man... MORTIMER ADLER In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how man... MORTIMER ADLER Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one’s ha... ZAMAN ALI CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain. AMBROSE BIERCE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY A persons knowledge is not measured by what you have learned but by what you have experienced ANDY STEWART True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes. UNKNOWN
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In ruin and confusion hurled,
He, unconcerned... JOSEPH ADDISON Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour. JOSEPH ADDISON The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it
is only to be met with in minds wh... JOSEPH ADDISON Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to save our country! JOSEPH ADDISON O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate,
And not the wonders of thy youth relate;
How can I see th... JOSEPH ADDISON Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
. . . .
Endless... JOSEPH ADDISON Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this
virtue. JOSEPH ADDISON Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everythin... JOSEPH ADDISON It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentl... JOSEPH ADDISON When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view I'm lost,
... JOSEPH ADDISON Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the li... JOSEPH ADDISON Let echo, too, perform her part,
Prolonging every note with art;
And in a low expiring strain,... JOSEPH ADDISON But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when
it is made the reply to calumny an... JOSEPH ADDISON Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it JOSEPH ADDISON Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what... JOSEPH ADDISON A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty
attractive, knowledge delightful and wit g... JOSEPH ADDISON Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenit... JOSEPH ADDISON Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. JOSEPH ADDISON There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a
nation, than a want of zeal in its inhab... JOSEPH ADDISON My death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me. JOSEPH ADDISON I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
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one, health is preserved, strength... JOSEPH ADDISON In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our
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And heavily in clouds brings on the day,
The great, ... JOSEPH ADDISON When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),
The ... JOSEPH ADDISON On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
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... JOSEPH ADDISON A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
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Thy mercy set me free,
Whilst in the confidence of pray'r
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