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Happiness Quotes by Zhuangzi
- My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
- Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
- I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
- So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said,…
- Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love…
- Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only…
- I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go…
- To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one…
- Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious…
- Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in…
- Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people…
- When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true…
- The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
- Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
More Happiness Quotes
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach