Happiness Quotes and Sayings
Do such moments really mean, as they seem to, that we have a life of happiness with which we only occasionally, knowingly, intersect? Do they shed such light before and after that all that has happened in our lives - or that we’ve made to happen - can be dismissed? ~ Alice Munro. The affirmation of one’s own life, happiness, growth, freedom is rooted in one’s capacity to love, i.e. in care, respect, responsibility, and knowledge. If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all. ~ Erich Fromm. That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. ~ Samuel Johnson. Everything she had won, the happiness of it,/ You collected/ As your compensation/ For having lost. Which left her absolutely/ Nothing. Even her life was/ Trapped in the heap you took. She had nothing./ Too late you saw what had happened./ It made no difference that she was dead./ Now that you had all she had ever had/ You had much too much./ Only you/ Saw her smile, as she took some./ At first, just a little. ~ Ted Hughes. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ~ Elizabeth Stanton. And if you’re very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life. Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. ~ Jim Butcher. I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness. ~ Aldous Huxley. |
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