Very little is needed to make a happy life.
- Topic: Happiness, Life, Self-esteem
- Location: Hawaii, Kula, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.
When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.
