You see something absurd. You hear something absurd. You read something absurd = Yeah,TNTG. Posts tagged happiness.
“ If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
— Siddhartha Gautama (via natural-magics)
“ That was the time in my life when I was happiest. Why, you ask? It’s a puzzle I leave to you analysts of the psyche. I have little time for notions of repression and sublimation, for symbols of the unconscious or the subconscious. I have no wish to be autopsied while I am still alive. Let what I am remain private, whole, and mysterious. Let it continue to yield sufferings and joys uncomprehended. And when I die may it all be destroyed, like an unopened letter.
— Dezső Kosztolányi, from “Happiness”, trans. Peter Sherwood (via unjustlyunread)
“Happiness is an inside job”
“Happiness is expensive”
“The Gratitude Experiment - WellCast, Episode 2”
“ Happiness is defined by the unhappiness that follows it
— Dan Harmon (via nevver)
“ Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know
— Ernest Hemingway (via fyeah-history)
Interesting read. Cotains such gems as:
This belief in our ability to will ourselves happy also lies behind the contemporary obsession with health. What is health, correctly understood, but a kind of permission we receive to live in peace with our bodies and to let ourselves be carefree?
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Yet by trying to remove every anomaly, every failing, we end up denying what is in fact the main benefit of health: indifference to oneself
and it ends with the interesting claim that
we are probably the first society in history to make people unhappy for not being happy.
