Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes

Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.

I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.

The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which are much more sought after. They suggested how few circumstances are necessary to the well-being and serenity of man, how indifferent all employments are, and that any may seem noble and poetic to the eyes of men, if pursued with sufficient buoyancy and freedom.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

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

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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

Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it's very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it's quite a miracle.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

How rich, how happy is he who lives in poverty! He lives his days in wisdom, and sleeps in peace. Only he can be really happy, only he is so always!

I'm not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things.