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Quotes About Happiness

To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls. The soul travels, the body does not travel as much as the soul. The body has just a great of work as the soul and parts away at last for the journeys of the soul." If it's happiness we are after it is the pursuit of happiness that matters.
~ Walt Whitman
seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy; Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
~ Walt Whitman
Micsoda érzés: ma vagy bármelyik napon azt érezni, hogy úgy, ahogy vagyok, kielégítÅ' vagyok!
~ Walt Whitman
For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night, In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me, And his arm lay lightly around my breast - and that night I was happy
~ Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. The same applies to our view of the past, which is the concern of history... There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. The same applies to our view of the past, which is the concern of history... There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Ser feliz significa poder tomar conciencia de uno mismo sin llevarse un susto.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Loneliness is when those you love are happy without you.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure
~ Walter Dean Myers
Its leading thinkers embraced a Renaissance humanism that put its faith in the dignity of the individual and in the aspiration to find happiness on this earth through knowledge.
~ Walter Isaacson
Man is very capable of imagining infinite happiness, and he should be able to grasp the infinity of space—I
~ Walter Isaacson
If the object were to have feelings, these would be based on its desire to fulfill its essence. The purpose of a glass, for example, is to hold water; if it had feelings, it would be happy when full and sad when empty. The essence of a computer screen is to interface with a human. The essence of a unicycle is to be ridden in a circus. As for toys, their purpose is to be played with by kids, and thus their existential fear is of being discarded or upstaged by newer toys.
~ Walter Isaacson
una vida bien empleada trae una muerte feliz.»
~ Walter Isaacson
We must remember that this is a very small star," he responded, "and probably some of the larger and more important stars may be very virtuous and happy."73
~ Walter Isaacson
Al igual que un día bien aprovechado trae un sueño feliz —había escrito Leonardo treinta años antes—, una vida bien empleada trae una muerte feliz.»[27] Esta le llegó el 2 de mayo de 1519, al poco de cumplir sesenta y siete años.
~ Walter Isaacson
human felicity is produced . . . by little advantages that occur every day.
~ Walter Isaacson
There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness.
~ Walter Lippmann
I'm sorry he's dead but I am happier, by far, that he lived.
~ Walter Mosley
Everybody was screaming for joy. That's what children do - they scream because life is just too much for them but they don't know it yet.
~ Walter Mosley
Hi,' Winifred Minette said to her husband. Socrates imagined all of the sweet knowledge buried in her hello. It made him happy.
~ Walter Mosley
On the other hand, in ancient, and modern, tribal cultures, everything given is already known by everyone you know. Manhood, womanhood, your first trinket, your last rite. Back then, and over there, they expected happiness and therefore achieved that state.
~ Walter Mosley
Man must have new concepts, new ideals and new values which will uplift him from the barbarian desires to kill for greed - to build empires for power - to seek happiness through material possessions or to accumulate gold under the delusion that he is creating wealth.
~ Walter Russell
Chapter XX Happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing
~ Walter Scott