William Henry Harrison
Politician
"Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness."
Lasting Happiness quotes
Lasting Happiness
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Hugo Black
Justice
"The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"The most important thing in life is human affection. Without it one cannot achieve genuine happiness. And if we want a happier life, a happier family, happier neighbours or a happier nation, the key is inner quality. Even if the five billion human beings that inhabit the earth become millionaires, without inner development there cannot be peace or any lasting happiness."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal."
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it."
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"There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive."
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"When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love."
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"Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy."
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"Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose."
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