Absence Quote by Zhuangzi Download Open image “Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.” — Zhuangzi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absence Absence Striving Happiness Happiness Absence Happy Perfect Perfect happiness Strive Striving for happiness Striving Happiness
It's important to note that there's no such thing as perfect happiness, just as there's no such thing as perfect despair. This is why… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content. — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
Happiness is when you can smile and still be happy even though you don't have everything and you know you're not perfect. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
I've never experienced perfect happiness. All I see everyday is a continuous series of imperfect moments filled with infinite possibilities and opportunities for me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Being happy dosen't mean everything's perfect.It means you've decided to see beyond imperfections. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Lovely Thought: Being Happy Doesnt Mean Everything Is Perfect.. It Just Means That you Have Decided To See Everything Beyond The Imperfections..! — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them… — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
