#happiness

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get ↗

— W.P. Kinsella

#success #success

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#smile

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#science

Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#happiness #inspirational #dreams

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#purpose #men

Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist; but that is how it is. I am not trying to deny the wickedness of the wicked; what I do deny is that their existence is absolute and complete existence. Just as you might call a corpse a dead man, but couldn't simply call it a man, so I would agree that the wicked are wicked, but could not agree that they have unqualified existence. ↗

— Boethius

#good #happiness #men

Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le bonheur." ("Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.") [Journal entry, 10 December 1801] ↗

— Stendhal

#reality #reality-check #self-knowledge #self-perception #unhappiness

I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion. ↗

— Tony Hsieh

#money

I sing of happiness, he says, and insecurity shows through--poisons it. I sing of unhappiness, and it spoils that, too, because my real unhappiness isn't great or noble but cheap--money unhappiness. --"$10,000 a Year, Easy ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#money

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. ↗

— Hobart Brown

#money #money