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“If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.”

Ifs Happiness Order Attraction Law Of Attraction

Book:You Can Have What You Want

Source: You Can Have What You Want

“In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.”

Thinking Has Beens Happiness Order

Author:Joseph Joubert

“Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.”

Men May Body Happiness Order Perfect Activity Fortune Goods Happy Man

Author:Aristotle

“In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”

Happiness Spiritual Order Easy Sacrifice Bored Boredom Bores Messiah Live Free Being Bored Funny Boredom

Author:Richard Bach

“Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being.”

Wells Two Sometimes Happiness Order Loss Pleasure Wounds Well Being Breakup Hardship Get Over True Happiness Narcissistic Flattering

Author:Jean Leloup

“I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.”

Ifs Humans Facts Happiness Success Desire Order Causes Trouble Becoming Mechanism Traits Here And Now

Author:Peter McWilliams

“Order is heaven's first law.”

Firsts Happiness Law Order Heaven Mathematics Math Mathematical

Author:Alexander Pope

“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.”

Source: Pre-Raphaelitism

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”

Knows Philosophy Happiness Order Enjoy Sarcasm Sarcastic Great Happiness Why We Are Here

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”

Believe Said Happiness Order Alive Possibility I'm Alive

Book:War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Source: War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step”

Ifs Knows Life Inspirational Needs Happiness Order Next Pay Attention Steps Positive Ready Lessons Pay Attention Monday Next Steps Zahir

Book:The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession

Source: The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession

“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”

Men Want Mean Ends Whole Happiness Order Money Effort Taken Forgotten Devoted Earning Money Happiness Earning Money

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?”

Knows Pain Happiness Order Happy Unhappiness Great Happiness How To Be Happy Self Happiness Looking For Happiness

Author:Leslie Caron

“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.”

Moments Past Happiness Order Enjoy Compare Refrain

Author:Andre Gide