Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.
Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.
The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!
It’s one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.
Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.
Because they know that people will be kinder to a child who smiles.
Some people, very many actually, both men and women, complained of having enjoyed a very loving relationship with someone, but of no longer feeling the same way despite still being very fond of that person, with whom they generally lived.
Or rather, he was sad because that morning he’d understood that he’d understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn’t sad at all, but now that he’d understood that he’d understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow.
He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed.
[P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn’t necessarily feel better afterwards.
He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year’s harvest.
He wondered why he wasn’t as in love with her as he was with…Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her)…he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow…but for some time now they’d shared too much frustration, boredom and fatigue.
Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.
those who believed in the Good Lord, for whom death was just a journey, and it didn’t make them sad at all