(about William Blake)
As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me."
And yet this creative power in Blake did not come from ambition. ...He burned most of his own work. Because he said, "I should be sorry if I had any earthly fame, for whatever natural glory a man has is so much detracted from his spiritual glory. I wish to do nothing for profit. I wish to live for art. I want nothing whatever. I am quite happy."
...He did not mind death in the least. He said that to him it was just like going into another room. On the day of his death he composed songs to his Maker and sang them for his wife to hear. Just before he died his countenance became fair, his eyes brightened and he burst into singing of the things he saw in heaven.
Tags: happiness freedom contentment creativity living effort glory william-blake
that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks
Jim FergusTags: happiness introspection self-reflection subsistence
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Ayn RandTags: inspirational happiness salvation
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.
Jennifer Michael HechtThe old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.
Hermann HesseTags: life friendship happiness music philosophy
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
Gregory David RobertsTags: happiness
The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.
Joseph Smith Jr.Tags: happiness knowledge religion lds righteousness mormon inspiriational
Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
Shunryu SuzukiTags: happiness relationships
I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
Andy RooneyTags: happiness
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
Stephen ChboskyTags: life inspirational happiness
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