Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870)
Variant: Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 16 : The Scroll Marked IX, p. 95.
As long as you are enslaved to the external situation, you will always be in some level of suffering because the outside situation is never going to be hundred percent in your control.
Encounter the Enlightened (2001)
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Happiness
“Happiness happens by chance, and is not a law or the logical consequences of actions.”
P 8
Women As Lovers (1994)
“That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers”
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) Treatise II, Section 3
Context: That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions Misery.
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
