The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
I'm sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.
I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.
For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.
The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Happiness is very simple and minimal.
It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.
Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
Happiness is the cessation of suffering.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
I am extremely satisfied and content. I am happy and I think happiness is enough for everything.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.