Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.

Happiness is found when no one is looking

Real success is not being on the cover of a magazine; it's knowing that you've done, and enjoyed doing, what you set out to do.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

And feel that I am happier than I know.

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

Over the past year I'vediscovered if you keep on giving and giving, you end up losing yourself. I think that learning to give and receive is the trick. Perfect happiness is also a feeling, and the most amazing thing is that we were all born with the gift to make it happen in a heartbeat. Putting on certainmusic, reading something can make us feel a certain way. I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it's nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you.