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All who joy would win Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.


George Gordon Byron


#happiness #twin #winning

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.


Aldous Huxley


#achievement

I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't you will eat away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#happiness #love

There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time).


Roman Payne


#drunkenness #happiness #payne #rest #roman

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.


Guillaume Apollinaire


#good #happiness #happy #just #just be

Zakath stared at the floor. 'I suddenly feel very helpless,' he admitted, 'and I don't like the feeling. I've been rather effectively dethroned, you know. This morning I was the Emperor of the largest nation on earth; this afternoon, I'm going to be a vagabond.' You might find it refreshing,' Silk told him lightly. Shut up, Kheldar,' Zakath said almost absently. He looked back at Polgara. 'You know something rather peculiar?' What's that?' Even if I hadn't given my word, I'd still have to go to Kell. It's almost like a compulsion. I feel as if I'm being driven, and my driver is a blindfolded girl who's hardly more than a child.' There are rewards,' she told him. Such as what?' Who knows? Happiness, perhaps.' He laughed ironically. 'Happiness has never been a driving ambition of mine, Lady Polgara, not for a long time now.' You may have to accept it anyway,' She smiled. 'We aren't allowed to choose our rewards any more than we are our tasks. Those decisions are made for us.


David Eddings


#fantasy #happiness #ambition

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.


Paulo Coelho


#mathematics

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.


Craig Ferguson


#divorce #happiness #women #divorce

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.


Nicholas Sparks


#happiness #impermanence #joy #star #sky

And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#sadness #sky






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