Jeremy Collier Quotes

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.

When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.

I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

In the light of his vision that is the perspective that allows him to be grateful that things are not worse he has found his freedom and joy: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.