Quotes About Superficial Happiness

#1. He doesn't get ulcers - he gives them.

Henny Youngman

#2. The awful truth was that Jim was happy: not in some bland, superficial way - fixed Kodak smiles under the bluest of skies - but in his deepest self. This kind of happiness was less a state, he realised, than a form of honesty: a sense of essential rightness.

Laura Barnett

#3. You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The

Ravi Zacharias

#4. In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.

Terence McKenna

#5. The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.

Idries Shah

#6. We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

Tom Robbins

#7. Remember, if you have not known sadness together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial; your sadness is also superficial. Then you have been living on the surface; then you have known only the waves; you have not known the depth of the ocean that you are.

Rajneesh

#8. We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

Dalai Lama

#9. Friendship is not a superficial thing; it is understanding the heart's feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#10. A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Edith Wharton

#11. You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

Jay McInerney

#12. Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

Helen Keller

#13. You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#14. Actually, I'm going to nerd out on you, so prepare.

J. Lynn

#15. I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

Annie Dillard

#16. And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.

Jessica Pare

#17. Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.

Al Swearengen