Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
Time is my greatest enemy.
My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Death by starvation is slow.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
