All Quotes By Tag: Happiness

“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”

“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”

“Happiness only real when shared.”

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

“One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”

“Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.”

“Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.”

“Happiness doesn’t lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.”

“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”

“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.”

“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”

“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”

“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”