Quotes about "Happiness & Joy"

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality. ”

Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases. ”

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie. ”

For me, stardom is feeling happiness and being positive. ”

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being. ”

In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in the heart, we try to encompass the full world, and by loving the world, we get joy. ”

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened. ”

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. ”

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. ”

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always. ”