You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.
-Mooji
You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.
-Mooji
The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.
-Dodinsky
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
-Stendhal (1783-1842)
Happiness comes from understanding one basic principle. Some things are within our control and some things are not. Our opinions, ambitions, desires, and aversions are in our control. We can change the contents of our inner character. Our body, wealth, fame, and social status are not in our control. They are external to us and not our concern.
Epictetus
Is it possible to live abundantly with nothing, no home, a beggar without a country? Look, God has sent you someone to show you by his example that is possible. I have no home, country, wife, or children, but only earth and heaven and a simple blanket. But I am happy. I am not anxious. I am free. Look friends, how I have nothing and need nothing. See, I am a homeless, landless exile; and yet I live more free from troubles than all the rich and powerful.
Epictetus