Quotes About Happiness

Ich wünschte, ich könnte so leben, Johanna, die Kinder einfach aufwachsen lassen, dreckig, frei und gleich mit welchen Noten, außer Atem von der Sonne, müde von der Luft.

Happy people are poor psychologists.

Their childish high spirits succeeded entirely in diverting my thoughts from the subject that they usually circled, like bees buzzing around a darkly oozing honey-comb, and no sooner did I step into the open air and feel my muscles stretched to the full again in an improvised race with the young woman than I was the fit, carefree boy of the past once more.

globalization is the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land where one can escape and find happiness. Or the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land different from yours in terms of being able to oppose the sense of meaninglessness, the loss of criteria and, ultimately, moral blindness and the loss of sensitivity.

mientras que un dolor de muelas que de pronto cede nos hace sentir en la gloria, los dientes que nunca duelen no nos dan felicidad… De las comparaciones que ignoran el factor de la experiencia no compartida podemos obtener a lo sumo información acerca de la selectividad y el anclaje temporal y espacial de la tendencia a quejarse y del nivel de tolerancia al sufrimiento.

Actualmente, la sexualidad ya no es el epítome del posible placer y la felicidad. Ya no está mistificada positivamente en tanto éxtasis o transgresión, sino negativamente, en tanto fuente de opresión, desigualdad, violencia, abuso e infección letal.

There is always a suspicion...that one is living a lie or a mistake; that something crucially important has been overlooked, missed, neglected, left untried, and unexplored; that a vital obligation to one's own authentic self has not been met or that some chances of unknown happiness completely different from any happiness experienced before have to been taken up in time and are bound to be lost forever if they continue to be neglected.

Russia's joy's in the bottle!

It hardly can be called a sin, If something's funny and you grin! …

Mortal life is too short to be worried all the time.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

What day is it?" asked Pooh. "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh.

One cannot seek happiness, for it is the result of realizing the Truth. The personality, which has security and pleasure as its aims, cannot be happy. Pursuing pleasure or safety will entail covering up any unpleasant or frightening truths. This automatically closes Joy. For Joy is the radiance of the heart when Truth is appreciated.

You abandon yourself, then start looking for satisfaction. You

Forget career, forget the future, forget existential worries, just get yourselves a couple of dogs, and everything will be all right.

Happy, for instance, once meant luck. Not good luck or bad, just luck. Look what we have done to ourselves. We think we can actually pursue happiness.

Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living . What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

Happy is he who is aware of the mysteries of his Lord.

Het begin van geluk is gelegen in het begrip dat het leven zonder verwondering niet de moeite waard is geleefd te worden. (p.56)

The Sabbath, thus, is more than an armistice, more than an interlude; it is a profound conscious harmony of man and the world, a sympathy for all things and a participation in the spirit that unites what is below and what is above. All that is divine in the world is brought into union with God. This is Sabbath, and the true happiness of the universe.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on the pathway winding to the threshold. Inside this portal dwells new strength in the security, serenity, and radiance of those I love above life itself. Here two will build new dreams--dreams that tomorrow will come true. The world over, these are the thoughts at eventide when footsteps turn ever homeward. In the haven of the hearthside is rest and peace and comfort.