Benign Quote by Stephan A. Hoeller

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility…

— Lin Yutang

Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

A long time ago individuals looked at life and saw that most people aren't happy. They saw this was obviously an inefficient system. So…

— Frederick Lenz

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

— Thomas Mann

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even -…

— Erich Maria Remarque

I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been driven to…

— Jack Nicholson

I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by…

— Mark Epstein

“Very few of us see life as it really is. Most of us see things only as we are, looking at others through our…

— Eknath Easwaran

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a…

— Paul Kurtz

And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add…

— Roger Ebert

Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it might not…

— Frederick Lenz