Quotes About Happiness

La inconciencia o no conciencia es la condición sine qua non para la felicidad.

Heaven and happiness do not exist. These are stories told by your fathers to justify the crime of having brought you into this world. What exists is reality, harsh reality: this slaughterhouse where we came to die, to kill and by the way kill the animal, our neighbor.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

Vaig entendre que només som la part insignificant d'una cadena de paradoxes. ¿O potser no és una paradoxa que allò que en diuen amor sovint acaba sent un desacord entre infeliços?

Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.

A clear Brunian 'coincidence of contraries' has surfaced again, for to be happy when miserable translates Bruno's paradoxical motto which preceded his play Candelaio: 'In tristitia hilaris: in hilaritate tristis'—in sad- ness, happiness and in happiness, sadness.

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

All I ever wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something. That is not madness, is it?

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Something large and happy has unfolded in my chest, erupting in a smile that won't quit. I can't remember ever feeling so light-hearted. Or is my heart full? Or bursting? Not aching, that's for sure.

There's nothing more satisfying than being stupid with a friend.

It seemed to me that life in America was one long series of festivities, all of them celebrated with merriment and chocolate. The

When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Although people feel blessed in the presence of a holy man who wants the world to be right and people to be happy, the holy man cannot make that happen.

Where there is sunshine the doctor starves.

But now that I am in love with a place which doesn't care how I look, or if I'm happy, happy is how I look

our little niece came tearing out to meet us.

Ich war dermaßen glücklich, dass ich mich aus Versehen in einer Mauer spiegelte, die in der schönen Jahreszeit glänzte, mein Auge lachte im Frühlingslicht, und das Licht spiegelte sich in den lachenden Pupillen eines Passanten.

Take advantage of the awareness of perfection in your mind. See perfection in everything around you. See if you can discover your true feelings when listening to music. Make happiness your goal. … Find out exactly what you want in life. Ask your mind for inspiration about everything. … You must find your own way.

People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today; but they were happier.

The singers were rude and untaught and poor beyond modern imagining; but they deserve to be remembered, for they knew the now lost secret of being happy on little.