Happiness and Joy
Platão
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend. When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present; love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure; the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. Sarah Breathnach
Adam Smith
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Friedrich Schiller
Joy, thou spark from Heav’n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are. 1
Fiódor Dostoiévski
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
John Keats
Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
Daniel Defoe
He told me … that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found by long experience was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness.
Oscar Wilde
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Mark Twain
What is it that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!
Charles Baudelaire
It proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Jack Kerouac
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time…
Kim Hubbard
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
J.M. Barrie
It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.
William Wordsworth
Where lies the land to which yon ship must go? Fresh as a lark mounting at break of day, Festively she puts forth in trim array.
John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Edgar Allan Poe
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
