Franz Kafka Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Suicide Quotes

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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All happiness depends on courage and work.

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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

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Order is heaven's first law.

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If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

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Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

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Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

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To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

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making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

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The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

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