I think happiness is love.
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
The threat of mutual destruction has always restrained participants of the international arena, prevented leading military powers from making hasty moves, and compelled participants to respect each other. U.S. withdrawal from treaties on anti-ballistic missiles is an attempt to put an end to strategic parity, but we will respond to this.
My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her – with the goal of saving him.
Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Happiness ain’t a thing in itself -it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain’t happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless allows us to seek happiness in the place it can be found: Our real, messy, imperfect experience
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
