to be content - on happiness

Happpines is like a butterfly, the more you chase it the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder" Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Sore Kierkegaard. (1813 - 1855) If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the Present. Lao Tzu (531 BC) The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not". Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD) The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. Confucius (551 - 479 BC) The secret of Happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. Socrates (470 - 369 BC) I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) Of all forms of caution, caution to Love is perhaps, the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)