Jean Paul Quotes

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

I'm at peace.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.

Happy the eyes that can close

I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I really love peace and quiet.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

I am calm most of the time.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

I feel very peaceful.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.

Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

I'm pretty peaceful and calm and sweet.