Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

If you're happy and you know it...

Henry Miller sez: “Somehow, the realization that nothing was to be hoped for had a salutary effect upon me. For months, for years, in fact, all my life, I had been looking forward to something happening, some extrinsic event that would alter my life, and now suddenly, inspired by the absolute hopelessness of everything, I felt as though a great burden had been lifted from my shoulders.”

Christopher Hitchens sez: “Only one ... sacred text mentions ‘happiness’ without embarrassment. But even in 1776, this concept was thought to be mentionable only as the consequence of a bitter struggle, just then being embarked upon. The beautiful word ‘pursuit,’ however we construe it, would be vacuous in any other context.”

Bruce Lee sez: “In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.”

Mickey Z. sez: “Happiness is overrated.”

After all, we are just monkeys with delusions of grandeur...