To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
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Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
It is stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.
No matter who you are or what your position you must keeping fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.
Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.