Top 22 Happiness Delusion Quotes
#1. Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without pain is an addiction and the fantasy of perpetual happiness is like the "delusion of fusion."
Carl Whitaker
#2. Formerly, in solitude and in silence, he had been used to think clearly and sometimes even profoundly, seeing life outside the flattering optical delusion of everlasting hope, of conventional self-deceptions, of an ever-expected happiness.
Joseph Conrad
#3. You learn a lot when listening to people. Always keep your ears open. You never know the impact they will have on your life.
David Mezzapelle
#4. I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.
Matthew Goode
#5. Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy
Shantideva
#6. No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
C.N. Bovee
#7. The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.
Samuel Johnson
#8. Then I understood that a survivor has no right to bring a complaint. Whoever survives has won his case, he has no right and no cause to bring charges; he has emerged the stronger, the more cunning, the more obstinate, from the struggle.
Sandor Marai
#9. Warriorship is none other than the vitality that sustains all life.
Morihei Ueshiba
#10. The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.
Martin Seligman
#11. There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.
Saurabh Sharma
#13. People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.
Lionel Suggs
#14. The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#15. According to the Buddha's teachings, the most basic condition for happiness is freedom. Here we do not mean political freedom, but freedom from the mental formations of anger, despair, jealousy, and delusion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#16. You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.
Sanhita Baruah
#17. Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man
his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.
Octave Feuillet
#18. Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief.
Debasish Mridha
#19. There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"
I forget where.
Laurence Sterne
#20. How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.
Wilfrid Sheed
#21. By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#22. What if we could paint the moon a different color? Like - purple?
Tessa Emily Hall
