Pursuing Happiness

Too much of the

Too much of the world’s happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and … Read more

If thou wilt make

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. Epicurus

How can you tell

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they’re somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? Dan Savage

I don’t think that

I don’t think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. Dan Savage

The wiser course is

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness. Dalai Lama

We begin from the

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think … Read more

Too much of the

If thou wilt make

How can you tell

I don’t think that

The wiser course is

We begin from the

If you want others

Happiness is not something

People don’t notice whether