Quotes on Zufriedenheit

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

There is a secret to live a happy life, but it remains, in fact, a secret.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Happiness comes when you are doing something because you really love to do it, and not because it gives you riches or makes you a prominent person.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Happiness is a state of mind.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the person in this process would experience each one of these at the appropriate times. But adjectives which seem more generally fitting are adjectives such as enriching, exciting, rewarding, challenging, meaningful. This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-fainthearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life. Yet the deeply exciting thing about human beings is that when the individual is inwardly free, he chooses as the good life this process of becoming.

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

You cannot buy happiness but you have to pay the price.