#happiness

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one. ↗

— Wei Wu Wei

#happiness #buddhism

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance. ↗

— Graham Greene

#evil #happiness #ignorance #selfishness

To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#happiness #knowing #knowledge #literature #literature-quotes

Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day.  There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over; when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#gloom #hopelessness #misery #regret #richelle

Happiness doesn't always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #joy #rainbow #richelle #richelle-goodrich

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#wisdom #fairy-tales

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods ↗

— Edith Wharton

#happiness #romance #romance-novels

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#alive #being #creative #great #happiness

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ↗

— Aristotle

#aiming #also #always #because #beyond

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#assistants #battalion #does #happiness #more