Monday, February 6, 2012

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

Pursuit of Happiness

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Seneca
What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course In Miracles
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
- George Orwell
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
- Anne Frank
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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