Happiness - Quotes
Truth is nothing, what you believe to be true is everything. And the main thing that I used to believe was that I would be with you forever. [...] If I had one wish, it would be that your life brings you a taste of the happiness you have brought to me. That you can feel what it`s like to love.
Love, true love, is always fatal. What I mean is, it does not aim at happiness, at an idyll, at a hand-in-hand eternity of sentimental walks under flowering lime trees, with a gentle light burning on the veranda behind, the house swimming in cool scents. Life can be that, but not love. Love burns with a fierce, more dangerous flame. One day you discover a desire in yourself to encounter this all-consuming passion.
Love is when the other person`s happiness is more important than your own.
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody - really want him - it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause you a lacerating injury.
Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug.
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
It`s so hard to forget pain, but it`s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.
I`ve lived long enough to know that any promise made beside the word "forever" is no more than a lie agreed upon. There is no forever. Everything moves towards its end. And the closer we get to ours, the louder that clock ticks, the less a sane man would let a promise deprive him of happiness.