#happiness

..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#experience

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#beings #brain #fated #force #happiness

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#bad #keys #memory

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#harmony #say #think #you

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#broken #conditions #first #happiness #link

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#action #best #greatest #greatest happiness #greatest number

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#both #bring #does #failed #hard

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families. ↗

— Steve Kerr

#everywhere #families #goals #happiness #health