Quotes About Happiness

In fact, no group of parents—married, single, step, or even empty nest—reported significantly greater emotional well-being than people who never had children," she said. "It's such a counterintuitive finding because we have these cultural beliefs that children are the key to happiness and a healthy life, and they're not.

While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.

since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present.

Unrestricted satisfaction of all desires is not conducive to well-being, nor is it the way to happiness or even to maximum pleasure.

Attenti a non ridurre l'igiene mentale alla semplice prevenzione dei sintomi. I sintomi, in quanto tali, sono per noi non nemici, ma amici; dov'è un sintomo, là è conflitto, e conflitto significa sempre che le forze vitali lottano ancora per l'integrazione e la felicità

Know thyself is one of the fundamental commands that aim at human strength and happiness.

THE GREAT PROMISE OF UNLIMITED PROGRESS—the promise of domination of nature, of material abundance, of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, and of unimpeded personal freedom—has sustained the hopes and faith of the generations since the beginning of the industrial age.

By being I refer to the mode of existence in which one neither has anything nor craves to have something, but is joyous, employs one's faculties productively, is oned to the world.

Only if man masters society and subordinates the economic machine to the purposes of human happiness and only if he actively participates in the social process, can he overcome what now drives him into despair—his aloneness and his feeling of powerlessness. Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.

Dare dà più gioia che ricevere, non perché è privazione, ma perché in quell'atto mi sento vivo.

But since success depends largely on how one sells one's personality, one experiences oneself as a commodity or, rather, simultaneously as the seller and the commodity to be sold. A person is not concerned with his or her life and happiness, but with becoming salable.

Creation and destruction, love and hate, are not two instincts which exist independently. They are both answers to the same need for transcendence, and the will to destroy must rise when the will to create cannot be satisfied. However, the satisfaction of the need to create leads to happiness; destructiveness to suffering, most of all, for the destroyer himself.

Hatred is a passionate wish for destruction; love is a passionate affirmation of an object; it is not an affect but an active striving and inner relatedness, the aim of which is the happiness, growth, and freedom of its object. It is a readiness which, in principle, can turn to any person and object including ourselves.

Modern man is starved for life.

Joy, then, is what we experience in the process of growing nearer to the goal of becoming ourselves.

Notóriusan boldogtalan emberek társadalma a miénk: magányosak, félelmektÅ'l gyötörtek, depressziósak, rombolók, függÅ'k vagyunk - olyan emberek, akik boldogok, ha sikerül agyonütniük azt az idÅ't, amelyet szüntelenül meg akarnak spórolni.

But even without theoretical analysis the observable data show most clearly that our kind of "pursuit of happiness" does not produce well-being. We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent—people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Ich habe arm angefangen, ich war später ein reicher Mann, ich bin jetzt wieder ein armer Teufel, es spielt keine Rolle. Wie's kommt, wird's gefressen, Ob mich die Sonne auf meiner Terrasse in Leoni bescheint oder hier auf dem Kreuzberg, das ist mir so egal wie der Sonne.

Das wäre ja gelacht', dachte Jonathan Trotz, 'wenn das Leben nicht schön wäre!

Sooft in München in Konzert war, bei dem neue Werke von Ludwig Palffy aufgeführt wurden, kaufte sich Luiselotte Körner ein Billett, saß dann mit gesenktem Kopf in einer der letzten billigen Reihen und entnahm der Musik ihres geschiedenen Mannes, daß er kein glücklicher Mensch geworden war. Trotz seiner Erfolge. Und trotz seiner Einsamkeit.

Lieber Stephan, sagte Fabian leise, es ist rührend, wie du dich um mich bemühst. Aber ich bin nicht unglücklicher als unsere Zeit. Willst du mich glücklicher machen, als sie es ist? Und wenn du mir einen Direktorposten, eine Million Dollar oder eine anständige Frau, die ich lieben könnte, verschaffst oder alle drei Dinge zusammen, es wird dir nicht gelingen.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.

I've not much interest in the important things of life. Only in the beautiful things. Just this lilac here makes me happy.