Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from the sum of his desires.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach but we shut our eyes and, like people in the dark, fall foul of the very thing we search for without finding it. Tranquility is a certain quality of mind which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress.
Happy the man who can endure the highest And the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
Virtue is that perfect good which is the complement of a happy life the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories