Zitat des Tages über Wahre Fröhlichkeit / True Happiness:
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
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.
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women.
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.