„I love acting. It is so much more real than life.“
— Oscar Wilde, buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
„There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.“
Quelle: Pleasures of a Nonconformist
Letzte Aktualisierung 25. September 2021. Geschichte
Lin Yutang1
chinesischer Schriftsteller 1895 - 1976Ähnliche Zitate
— Janusz Korczak Polish physician and writer 1878 - 1942
Quelle: Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak
„There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.“
— Khaled Hosseini, buch Drachenläufer
Quelle: The Kite Runner
„Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.“
— Hermann Hesse, buch Peter Camenzind
Peter Camenzind (1904)
„Happiness has to exist in the mind before it can exist in life.“
— Lorin Morgan-Richards American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer 1975
Speaking at the Los Angeles St. David's Day Festival (1 March 2014).
„The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.“
— F. H. Bradley British philosopher 1846 - 1924
No. 33.
Aphorisms (1930)
— Melody Carlson American writer 1956
Quelle: Finding Alice
„Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.“
Adeo nihil est miserum nisi cum putes, contraque beata sors omnis est aequanimitate tolerantis.
— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius philosopher of the early 6th century 480
Prose IV, line 18
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
— Henry Wilson Union Army officer, Vice president, politician, historian 1812 - 1875
"Debate with Jefferson Davis"
— George Santayana 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism 1863 - 1952
https://owlquote.com/quotes/happiness-is-the-only-2jy3r26
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense
„Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.“
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi Indian-American Sikh Yogi 1929 - 2004
As quoted in Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom : A Collection of 10, 000 Powerful Quotations (2003) by Andy Zubko, p. 71
— Iris Murdoch, buch The Sea, the Sea
Quelle: The Sea, the Sea
„There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.“
— George Sand French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin 1804 - 1876
— Albert Jay Nock American journalist 1870 - 1945
Quelle: Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943), p. 314
Kontext: According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.
