What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.
To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.
I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.
Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.