Rajneesh Quotes

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening.

I don't thrive on misery myself. I mean, I've obviously created during a time of misery, but I also create from a place of joy.

I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.