Insights on Happiness in Life
- The only happiness lies in the anticipation of joy.
- The misery of some can bring happiness to others.
- Even with wealth and good health, a person will still ponder whether they are truly happy.
- Ethics come first, followed by knowledge and competence—this is the key to happiness for individuals, governments, and communities.
- I have found that a person’s share of happiness often hinges on their genuine desire to be happy.
- Happiness is like the sun; the closer we get, the more it casts our troubles into shadow.
- Those who are unhappy create imaginary problems and fight nonexistent foes, while the happy address real challenges with a sense of detachment from negativity.
- We often seek happiness as if it were distant, while it might be as close as our own eyewear resting upon our noses.
- Happiness is good health combined with a short memory.
- People believe happiness stems from success, but in reality, success is a result of feeling happy.
- The spirit of festivities does not bestow happiness upon those who await it with a frown.
- If a person’s happiness is tied to a specific individual or object, it isn’t true happiness. However, if one knows how to stand alone in difficult situations, fulfilling their duties with love and dedication, they have found a path to happiness.
- You don’t need to search for happiness; it will come to you once you create a space for it in your heart.
- Happiness cannot be found in wealth, power, or authority; rather, it resides in how we utilize those resources.
- One of the fundamental conditions for happiness is maintaining an unbroken bond between people and nature.
- If you wish to be among the happiest of people, engage deeply in your work.
Thoughts on Happiness and Optimism
- Finding joy in the simplest things, being playful without reason, and stepping away from excessive seriousness are key positive principles for attaining happiness.
- Happiness emerges from opening our hearts to others and gently knocking on the doors of their hearts through kindness, respect, and love.
- Optimism grants you calmness in the most trying times.
- In each new moment, embrace joy wholeheartedly.
- No matter how many concepts of life bombard you, maintain the happy pattern you believe in; your intrinsic abilities can keep you in a state of ongoing bliss and well-being.
- Some complain about the thorns on a rose, while others remain hopeful and see the rose above the thorns.
- Smile, and let the joy resonate within you; even if you possess nothing, sorrow takes away from our lifespans.
- There is no despair with life, nor can there be life with despair.
Reflections on Happiness and Love
- When love enveloped me, I felt as if rain fell upon the desert within, adorning it with flowers and gardens that remained untarnished until your departure; my heart sees no one but you, despite the beauty that surrounds.
- A good morning to every heart that harbors nothing but love for those around it; a morning filled with beautiful things that we sometimes fail to appreciate fully.
- The downside of love is that happiness hinges on one individual; you may smile at countless letters, yet your joy wanes for a single message from that special someone.
- The most beautiful word in the happiness lexicon is love; through love, the galaxy is composed, joy persists, smiles adorn our faces, and the dawn carries gentle breezes, as the birds serenade with melody. A land devoid of love is a desert, a garden without love is barren, eyes without love are blind, and ears without love are deaf.
A Poem on the Search for Happiness
We sought happiness but
We never found it in its enchanted dwelling.
Always we ask the nights about it,
For it is the world’s secret and the riddle of ages.
They spoke to my heart of it,
In my childhood nights and youth.
They painted its meeting before my eyes,
And cast its news in my dreams.
Sometimes it is nothing more than fragrance and songs,
Never lives outside the gates of a palace,
Built by hands of wealth and prosperity.
At times, it resides in the desert of worldly pleasures,
In the silence of ascetics and monks.
It thrives only on the rugged rock,
Between prayer and faith.
At other times, it is found in sin and worldly indulgence,
In evils, suffering, and disputes.
It remains pure only for a lowly heart,
Accustomed to sin and misdeeds.
It can be found in the regimen of some, with a shepherd,
Spending life in the foothills of high mountains,
Singing with the flock whenever it pleases,
Under sweet airs and shades.
It dwells among others, is the child of dignity,
Art, and elevated beauty,
Only lives on the lips of a skilled bard,
Singing or a gifted poet.
At times, it resides in love, inspiring
Cupid’s arrows in every lover’s heart.
It breathes only on the lip of the joyful,
Expressing life as a melody of love.
Many have spoken to me about it, yet
I have not found it despite my long search.
I still wander through the nights, searching,
With this longing for a beautiful existence.
My life has gone to waste, and I continue walking,
Across these sorrowful shores.
I have found only remnants of thorns in the sands!
Oh, for the lost desire!
Where are your sparkling shells, oh shore?
So where is your promised treasure?
Bring us mercy; bring a treasure
For what this world longs for.
Behold, your cold, deceptive sands—
How they mock us and leave us derided.
Oh how we yearn for your closeness,
Yet still, oh shore, you keep your distance!
The story of happiness has ceased to deceive me,
So let me remain on the shore of sighs.
In vain, I hope to find the treasure,
For nothing remains but the silence of life.
Where is the smiling hope of this life,
Where are the aspirations and joys?
How shall a person thrive in a world
That is merely a sea beneath darkness and storms?
My search has continued, oh Lord, where can I find
The happy and jubilant soul? Where can I see?
All around me are the dark realms of the universe,
Whose grief and sorrow never end.
Every day, the dead walk in their sufferings,
Moving toward a world of darkness.
Oh eternal myth of immortality, what remains
But graves and pain?
Oh echo of lamentations on Earth, when will
The weepers and screamers cease?
When will misery end? When will a world
Release the tortured tormented for centuries?
In a world where all on its face grieves
And spends days filled with sorrow and despair.
Years have filled me with bitterness,
Rendering life an eyesore and a burden.
Oh happiness, a legend, tell me
About your sought-after secret.
Where shall I meet you? Where is your merciful abode?
In the horizon or behind existence?
I have walked alone beneath the stars for too long,
Asking the night and shadows about you.
Alas, I did not find you on the rocky shores,
Where waters continue to weep.
Where thorns persist and roses wither
Under the gaze of fate and destiny.
Where purity fades and night descends,
Madness prevails in the storms and gales.
Where the flocks pass their days in cries,
And there’s no green in the barren pastures.
Forever chasing mirages and lamenting
The scarcity of deceptive time.
Where the raven dwells, and the loathsome nightingale
Plummets into its woven nest.
And the wretched owl echoes with disdain on roads,
While the turtledove finds a resting place among the stones.
Where the clouds remain a symbol
Of a life whose shadows never fade,
Where the winds whistle a tune,
Mocking our fates within.
Where life cries out with its truths: what do you seek under this darkness?
Look, everything on Earth weeps,
Awaken, oh dreamers, awaken!