24 quotes found
“Many people see happiness only in their future.”
“People who are afraid of death are afraid of lif”
“Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.”
“It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.”
“Because they know that people will be kinder to a child who smiles.”
“The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!”
“Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'fallin...”
“Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.”
“Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.”
“Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.”
“Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, whi...”
“...it's a mistake to think that happiness is the goal. I'm not sure I understand." "I was referring to the goals which you in your civilization are so good at setting yourselves, and which incident...”
“Some people, very many actually, both men and women, complained of having enjoyed a very loving relationship with someone, but of no longer feeling the same way despite still being very fond of tha...”
“Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd under...”
“Adeline was really rather charming, she always had a man in her life, but it never worked out: either they were nice but she didn't find them very exciting; or they were exciting but she didn't fin...”
“He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed.”
“[P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn't necessarily feel better afterwards.”
“He looked at Hector's list and told him that, thanks to a lot of studies and calculations, they'd shown that if you compared yourself to others and didn't find yourself wanting, if you had no money...”
“And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little unhappy himself. He began to wonder if he was in the rig...”
“He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.”
