Quotes About Happiness

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

If we loved Steve Aylett , really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.

Quando a felicidade é sua e a dor é do outro não há relação entre felicidade e dor?

And then you'll be back, will you?" She smiled at him. "Of course I will. I can't stay away from you, you know that." The way his head tilted, Valkyrie knew that pleased him.

She would live and love. She would be vibrant and happy and thoughtful and strong.

She liked that feeling, as much as she hated to admit it. She liked being around someone who was genuinely happy to be around her.

learn to desire what you already have, and you will have all you need.

Alan Watts, who gave us the image of trying to wrap up water with string, made the point that it is absurd to work at something you don't enjoy, purely to make more money to be able to live longer and continue doing something you don't like.

As priorities change, regrets may surface. Bronnie Ware, an Australian nurse working in palliative care, recorded what she perceived to be the top five regrets of the dying. They were: I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I hadn't worked so hard. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

there is a deeper happiness to be had in knowing that your life is part of a story of flourishing than there is in merely pursuing entertainment.

It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it... It's okay to find what makes you happy and then to fight for it. To dedicate your life to discovering who you are.

Last December I saw an advertisement outside an electronics store. There was a little boy, delirious with delight, surrounded by computers, stereos, and other gadgets. The text read: "We know what your child wants for Christmas." I stared at the poster, then said to no one in particular, "What your child wants for Christmas is your love, but if he can't get that, he'll settle for a bunch of electronic crap.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years." The question still hangs heavy in the air: If our behavior is not making us happy, why do we act this way?

A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow, The longer he lies, the more stupid he becomes, His thirst for survival and happiness in the future, Prevents him from living in the present. Chuang Tzu

Janaka told her to bring happiness into marriage, rather than seek happiness from it.

bliss comes when love is shared with all.

Yes, Yudhishtira, life has no point at all. So enjoy every moment for there s no tomorrow, no life after death, no soul, no fate, no bondage, no liberation, no God. Be a king if it makes you happy; dont be a king if it does not. Pleasure alone is the purpose of life.

There is great joy in satisfying oneself,' said Hanuman. 'But there is greater joy when we satisfy ourselves by satisfying others. Still greater joy when we do not need satisfaction. And even more joy, when despite not needing satisfaction, we provide satisfaction to others.

Attainment of desirable states brings joy, failure to do so becomes sorrow.

now I know the power of maya: that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness. Oh