"Happy is it, indeed, for me that..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.
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More on Happiness
“Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.”
“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?”
“Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness”
More on Simplicity
“If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?”
“One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.”
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”