Happiness quotes & statements from Africa
Quotes & statements from around Africa by country and contentment
Are you going to bed? Put your slippers crosswise on top of one another under your bed. It will bring you luck and happiness - Cape Verde Islands
Are you going to bed? Put your slippers crosswise on top of one another under your bed. It will bring you luck and happiness - Cape Verde Islands
Are you going to bed? Put your slippers crosswise on top of one another under your bed. It will bring you luck and happiness.
- Cape Verde Islands
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared - Africa & Europe
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared - Africa & Europe
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared
Said by
- 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
Have you lost something? Spit in your hand and watch where the drops go. That is where you will find it - Eritrea
Have you lost something? Spit in your hand and watch where the drops go. That is where you will find it - Eritrea
Have you lost something?
Spit in your hand and watch where the drops go.
That is where you will find it.
Eritrea
Sing a lot, and it will be beautiful weather - Eritrea
Sing a lot, and it will be beautiful weather - Eritrea
Sing a lot, and it will be beautiful weather.
Eritrea
Throw rose petals after a wedding. It will bring the married couple luck - Morocco
Throw rose petals after a wedding. It will bring the married couple luck - Morocco
Throw rose petals after a wedding.
It will bring the married couple luck.
Morocco
When you peel an orange and the peel stays in one piece, you will get lucky - Tunisia
When you peel an orange and the peel stays in one piece, you will get lucky - Tunisia
When you peel an orange and the peel stays in one piece, you will get lucky.
Tunisia
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) - 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.”
- Source
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.
Happiness quotes and statements from around the world - Theme
Happiness quotes and statements from around the world - Theme
Quotes and statements from around the world about a meaningful and happy life, and how to stay happy
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