Quotes About Happiness

He considered her ruthless, in his moments of pain, but also in moments of happiness, experienced mere feet from her but bound right wrist to left ankle by her rules: nothing could evolve, nothing could be consummated, nothing repressed could surface, nothing previously accepted could be ignored. One must not speak of it, in case one could no longer sing of it. Instead, she only kept directing his attention to the wondrously charged air they could tame and make dance between them.

Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien : Mais l'amour infini me montera dans l'âme, Et j'irai loin, bien loin, comme un bohémien, Par la Nature, -- heureux comme avec une femme.

I came a fabulous opera. I saw that all beings have a fatality for happiness: action is not life, but a way of spending your strength, an irritation. Morality is a weakness of the brain.

Elle est retrouvée! -Quoi? -l'Éternité. C'est la mer mêlée Au soleil. Je devins un opéra fabuleux : je vis que tous les êtres ont une fatalité de bonheur : l'action n'est pas la vie, mais une façon de gâcher quelque force, un énervement. La morale est la faiblesse du cerveau. À chaque être, plusieurs autres vies me semblaient dues. Ce monsieur ne sait pas ce qu'il fait : il est un ange.

Kesän sinisinä iltoina kulkisin polkuja, vehnän raapimana, tallaisin hentoa ruohoa; mietteissäni tuntisin tuoreuden jaloissani. Antaisin tuulen huuhtoa hiuksiani. En puhuisi, en ajattelisi mitään: mutta loputon rakkaus kohoaisi sydämeeni, ja menisin kauas, kovin kauas niinkuin mustalainen, luontoon - onnellisena, kuin naisen kanssa.

Terminé por encontrar sagrado el desorden de mi espíritu. Permanecía ocioso, presa de pesada fiebre: envidiaba la felicidad de las bestias —las orugas, que representan la inocencia de los limbos, los topos ¡el sueño de la virginidad!

Vi que todos los seres tienen una fatalidad de dicha: la acción no es la vida, sino una forma de malgastar una fuerza, un enervamiento. La moral es la debilidad del cerebro.

Am sfârÅŸit prin a socoti sacr? dezordinea minÅ£ii mele.Eram trândav,prad? unei febre ap?s?toare:pizmuiam fericirea dobitoacelor,pizmuiam ÅŸi omizile,care întruchipeaz? inocenÅ£a limburilor,la fel ÅŸi cârtiÅ£ele,ÅŸi somnul virginit??ii!

Que notre sang rie en nos veines, Voici s'enchevêtrer les vignes.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

True happiness consists only in the enjoyment of God.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Love, Don Jaime, love," he went on after a moment of sad reflection. "That is the only thing that can make us happy and, paradoxically, it is also the thing that condemns us to our worst torments. To love is to be enslaved.

No me digan que no es vergonzoso para la especie humana haber medido la distancia de la Tierra al Sol, haber pesado todos los planetas cercanos, y no haber descubierto las leyes fecundas que hacen la felicidad de los pueblos.

Felices los que mueren por dejallas, o los que viven sin amores dellas, o, por su dicha, llegan a enterrallas.