Happiness
Quotes - Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart
“But
what was there to say?
Only
that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like
stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a
lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of
teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over.
Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.
Only
that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved.
And how. And how much.”
―
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“The
capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you,
but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of
being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of
another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the
other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to
the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the
other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be
taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”
―
Osho
“Money
may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
―
Françoise Sagan
“We're
all golden sunflowers inside.”
―
allen ginsberg
“Love
is too precious to be ashamed of.”
―
Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight
“Art
is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It
trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun
colors flowers, so does art color life.”
―
John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
“The
trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make
ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
―
Carlos Castaneda
“Later
she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those
uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future
pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”
― F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Just
because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you
have looked beyond its imperfections.”
―
Bob Marley
“If
you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest
favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style.
The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
―
Dorothy Parker
“Nothing
makes a person happier than having a happy heart.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Changing
your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real
personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the
change within yourself, you can turn your life around.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“We
all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet
the same.”
―
Anne Frank
“My
past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only
strengthened me.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“Plant
seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in
abundance. This is the law of nature.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“There
you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when
it's slick with tears.”
―
Shannon Hale, Princess Academy
“[F]or
just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for
the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting.
This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy
it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life,
forever.”
―
Lev Grossman, The Magicians
“The
foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not
make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man
who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself
again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the
world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion,
which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted
world...
Religious
suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a
protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature,
the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the
opium of the people.
The
abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for
their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their
condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.
The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale
of tears of which religion is the halo.
Criticism
has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall
continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he
shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of
religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality
like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he
will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun
which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.”
―
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
“It
is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.”
―
Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Stories and Poems
