Jin Shengtan: Happiness

Jin Shengtan was Chinese writer. Explore interesting quotes on happiness.

Jin Shengtan: 24 quotes1 like

“To have just finished repaying all one's debts. Ah, is this not happiness?”

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?”

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“It has been raining for a whole month and I lie in bed in the morning like one drunk or ill, refusing to get up. Suddenly I hear a chorus of birds announcing a clear day. Quickly I pull aside the curtain, push open the window and see the beautiful sun shining and glistening and the forest looks like having a bath. Ah, is this not happiness?”

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“I wake up in the morning and seem to hear some one in the house sighing and saying that last night some one died. I immediately ask to find out who it is, and learn that it is the sharpest, most calculating fellow in town. Ah, is this not happiness?”

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“To cut with a sharp knife a bright green watermelon on a big scarlet plate of a summer afternoon. Ah, is this not happiness?”

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“A traveller returns home after a long journey, and he sees the old city gate and hears the women and children on both banks of the river talking his own dialect. Ah, is this not happiness?”

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“To open the window and let a wasp out of the room. Ah, is this not happiness?”

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"