Zitat des Tages über Glück / Happiness:
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.
Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.
The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.
If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
