Happiness quotes & statements from Africa
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared - Africa & Europe
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared
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- It is said to be an old African saying
- Sir Philip Sidney wrote it in his book 'Aphorisms' in the 15th century."Happiness is a sunbeam, that may pass through 1,000 bosoms without losing a single particle of its original ray; nay when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. Happiness is not perfected until it is shared."
Variations
- Happiness is never perfect until is shared with someone else
- Happiness is not perfect, until it is shared
- Happiness is only real when shared
Quotes & statements from around Africa by country and contention (the twelve elements of contentment) - Africa
Quotes & statements from around Africa by country and contention (the twelve elements of contentment)
- Self-awareness & Self-insight
- Independency & Steadfastness
- Limitlessness & Freedom
- Usefulness & Meaning
- Experience & Feeling alive
- Helpfulness & Attentiveness
- Engagement & Sense of surroundings
- Goal Orientation & Sense of perspective
- Balance & Stability
- Result awareness & Positivity
- Connectivity & Contacts
- Attention & Focus
Self-awareness & Self-insight
- We are what our thinking makes us: Nigeria.
- Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand: Guinea.
- Those who are happy at home should remain at home.
Independency & Steadfastness
- Examine what is said, not him who speaks: Egypt.
Limitlessness & Freedom
- Happiness often sneaks through your door when you left the door open.
- Dance even if the hump on your back does not allow you.
Usefulness & Meaning
- Ubuntu: I am a person through other people. (Zulu)
- Desmond Tutu said: “One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu, the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. We believe that a person is a person through other persons.. It is a form of humanism which can be expressed
- "I am, like because of who we all are." Ubuntu signifies emphatically that: “The life of another person is at least as valuable as one’s own,” and that “Respect for the dignity of every person is integral to this concept.”
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Experience & Feeling alive
- Those who are absent are always wrong: Congo.
Helpfulness & Attentiveness
- Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
Engagement & Sense of surroundings
- Happiness is like a perfume, you cannot pour it all on others without allowing a few drops to fall on yourself.
- The chameleon changes color to match the earth; the earth doesn’t change colors to match the chameleon: Senegal.
Goal Orientation & Sense of perspective
- The big game often appears when the hunter has given up the hunt for the day.
- The chameleon looks in all directions before moving: Uganda.
- Anxious about the shoe, but careless about the foot.
Balance & Stability
- If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?
- Who swims never sinks.
Result awareness & Positivity
- There are no shortcuts to the top of the palm tree: Cameroon.
Connectivity & Contacts
- Lonely is one: Masai.
- Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow.
Attention & Focus
- Coffee and love taste best when hot: Ethiopia.
- He who learns teaches: Ethiopia.
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