“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~”
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“Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.”
“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”
Source: My Story
Letter 12
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
Context: Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose. Besides, few like to be seen as they really are; and a degree of simplicity, and of undisguised confidence, which, to uninterested observers, would almost border on weakness, is the charm, nay the essence of love or friendship, all the bewitching graces of childhood again appearing.
§ 1.33
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“…habits are happiness of a sort…”
“An Unread Book”, p. 39
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 433
Patanjali, in Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide http://books.google.co.in/books?id=AEo58-ihNygC&pg=PA205, p. 205.
"Summary of Principles" 1.3
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)