Art of living Quote by Hiram Crespo

“happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather, happiness consists in seeing one’s life in its entirety as meaningful and worthwhile.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Ingratitude is a bad habit by which we needlessly punish ourselves. When we no longer have the things we enjoy, we miss them and…

— Hiram Crespo

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent,…

— Epicurus

Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the…

— Kevin Griffin

“Epicurus is right, that happiness is up at auction all the time, and sold in lots to suit the purchaser whenever he bids high…

— William De Witt Hyde

“Philosophers, priests and poets have brooded over the nature of happiness for millennia, and many have concluded that social, ethical and spiritual factors have…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“How we pursue the goal of happiness matters at least as much, perhaps more, than the goal itself. They are, in fact, one and…

— Eric Weiner

Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things…

— Anandamayi Ma

“There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which I enjoyed…

— Hermann Hesse

“Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim.”

— Aristotle

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity”

— Leo Tolstoy