Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

I couldn't be happier.

I'm fascinated by simple joy.

I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

I find happiness in the tiniest things.

I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.

I'm still happy, I like this life.

To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.