Many a happiness in life as many a disaster can be due to chance but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Inequality makes everyone unhappy the poor most of all and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
Genuine happiness comes from within and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one and not to strive towards it.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside thinking that his happiness lies outside him finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope Self.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without but because of the insidious forces working from within.
All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.