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“Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.”

Ifs Knows Might Happiness Life Is Buddhism Asking Asking Why

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.”

Ifs Life Might Happiness Dark Shadow Sunshine Life Happiness Gloomy

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.”

Knows Men Might Happiness Success Deficiency

Author:Mark Steyn

“In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it might be said that there are now more problems and greater dangers than ever before.”

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.”

Ifs Might Happiness Joy Energy Laughter Negative Poison Antidote Superfluous

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.”

“I also believe that few people remain completely untouched by the thought that instead of the life they lead there might also be another, where all actions proceed from a very personal state of excitement. Where actions have meanings, not just causes. And where a person, to use a trivial word, is happy, and not just nervously tormenting himself.”

People Life Believe Persons States Use Might Action Happiness Causes Perception Excitement Life Happiness

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.”

Littles Might Happiness Difficult Surprise Disappointment Shock Enriching

Book:Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

“The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.”

Wells Might Happiness Spiritual Form Joy Forgiveness Forgiving Envy Ecstasy Forgiven Ineffable What Is Forgiveness Envy And Success

Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.”

Ifs Thinking Love Life Important Might Happiness Lost Rooms Losing Manage Always Thinking Thinking Of Yourself

Author:Richard Bach

“Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to perceive paradise gardening as a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we might go so far as to define this paradise as the place where art is indistinguishable from life, and where simplicity is codified as the best path for achieving happiness.”

Life Art Facts Might Happiness Asks Path Achieve Art Is Simplicity Perceive Paradise Gardening Morris Juncture Achieving Happiness

Author:Jim Nollman

“Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.”

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”