The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
Interpretation
Happiness is a basic human right, and since life is short, we should seek it amidst our solitude.
Bertolt Brecht emphasizes the importance of happiness as an essential right for individuals. He reflects on the brevity of life and the inherent solitude that accompanies the human experience, urging us to prioritize the pursuit of happiness while we can, understanding its fundamental necessity in our short-lived existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech about the importance of pursuing happiness.
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
War is like love, it always finds a way.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.
...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!
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