Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 94
“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
“You don't find happiness in the absence of problems. You find happiness in spite of problems.”
Source: Happiness Now!
“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”
Source: The Powerbook
“I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.”
Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated (2006)
“TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.”
"A Dialogue" (after 1695), as quoted in The Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006) http://books.google.com/books?id=oFoCY3xJ8nkC&dq edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 170
Context: TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others. Thus the habit of loving someone is nothing other than BENEVOLENCE by which we want the good of others, not for the profit that we gain from it, but because it is agreeable to us in itself.
CHARITY is a general benevolence. And JUSTICE is charity in accordance with wisdom. … so that one does not do harm to someone without necessity, and that one does as much good as one can, but especially where it is best employed.
