“幸福”詮釋說到你心坎裡

Abd Er-Rahman III of Spain:

　　I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen.

　　(960 C.E.)

　　Albert Camus:

　　You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

　　Albert Camus:

　　When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

　　Albert Schweitzer:

　　Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

　　Albert Schweitzer:

　　I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

　　Albert Schweitzer:

　　Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

　　Algernon Black:

　　Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.

　　Allan K. Chalmers:

　　The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

　　Amy Lowell:

　　Happiness: We rarely feel it.

　　I would buy it, beg it, steal it,

　　Pay in coins of dripping blood

　　For this one transcendent good.

　　Anne Frank:

　　We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

　　Anne Frank:

　　The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

　　Aristotle:

　　Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient

　　Benjamin Disraeli:

　　Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

　　Bertrand Russell:

　　The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

　　Buddha:

　　Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.

　　Carl Jung:

　　There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

　　Claude Monet:

　　The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.

　　Ecclesiastes:

　　For everything there is a season,

　　And a time for every matter under heaven:

　　A time to be born, and a time to die;

　　A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

　　A time to kill, and a time to heal;

　　A time to break down, and a time to build up;

　　A time to weep, and a time to laugh;

　　A time to mourn, and a time to dance;

　　A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

　　A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;

　　A time to seek, and a time to lose;

　　A time to keep, and a time to throw away;

　　A time to tear, and a time to sew;

　　A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

　　A time to love, and a time to hate,

　　A time for war, and a time for peace.

　　Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

　　Edith Wharton:

　　If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

　　Edward de Bono:

　　Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

　　Eric Hoffer:

　　You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

　　Felix Adler:

　　The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.

　　Fran Leibowitz:

　　Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

　　Francoise de Motteville:

　　The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

　　Franklin D. Roosevelt:

　　Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

　　George Burns:

　　Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

　　George Sand:

　　There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

　　HH the Dalai Lama:

　　When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

　　HH the Dalai Lama:

　　If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

　　HH the Dalai Lama:

　　Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.

　　Helen Keller:

　　Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

　　Helen Keller:

　　When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

　　Helen Keller:

　　Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

　　Henry David Thoreau:

　　That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

　　Henry David Thoreau:

　　The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

　　Horace Friess:

　　All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.

　　Hubert H. Humphrey:

　　Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.