If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!
Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.
What good is it to seek our happiness in the opinion of others if we cannot find it in ourselves?
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
All joy in this world comes from wanting others to be happy, and all suffering in this world comes from wanting only oneself to be happy. — Shantideva
The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]
In short, the five or seven hours a day which each will have at his disposal, after having consecrated several hours to the production of necessities, would amply suffice to satisfy all longings for luxury, however varied. Thousands of associations would undertake to supply them. What is now the privilege of an insignificant minority would be accessible to all. Luxury, ceasing to be a foolish and ostentatious display of the bourgeois class, would become an artistic pleasure.
Everyone would be the happier for it. In collective work, performed with a light heart to attain a desired end, a book, a work of art, or an object of luxury, each will find an incentive and the necessary relaxation that makes life pleasant.
In working to put an end to the division between master and slave, we work for the happiness of both, for the happiness of humanity.
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
Happiness was waiting to be chosen.
Before strongly desiring anything we should examine what happiness he has who possesses it.
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I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth.
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