“Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it.”
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“We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible.”
“All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally.”
“Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour done.”
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.”