Quotes About Happiness

Sovyetler birliÄŸinde evlilik devrimin ilk y?llar?nda yaln?zca eÅŸlerin özgürlüÄŸüne baÄŸl? bireyler aras? bir sözleÅŸme say?lm??t?r; bugünse devletin eÅŸlere yüklediÄŸi bir hizmet say?lmaktad?r. Aranan ÅŸey, bireysel mutluluÄŸu saÄŸlamak deÄŸil, kad?nla erkeÄŸin cinsel ve ekonomik birliÄŸini topluluk ç?kar? doÄŸrultusunda aÅŸmakt?r.

How, indeed, could the myth of Cinderella not keep all its validity? Everything still encourages the young girl to expect fortune and happiness from some Prince Charming rather than to attempt by herself their difficult and uncertain conquest.

Es wird Abend, aber die Luft ist noch lau. Dies ist einer jener ergreifender Augenblicke, in denen Erde und Menschen so vollkommen miteinander harmonieren, dass es unmöglich scheint, jemanden zu finden, der nicht glücklich ist.

Ancak kendimden d??ar? ç?k?nca vard?r sevinç, tadland???m ÅŸeylere baÄŸland???m, varl???m? dünyaya katt???m zaman vard?r.

Tant que les livres existeront, mon bonheur sera garanti.

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.' To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so.

I also like to think that after the slight shock of separation you will not feel any sorrow … and that if you should sometimes happen to think of me you will do so as one thinks of a book one read in childhood. I do not want ever to occupy a different place from that in the hearts of those I love, because then I can be sure of never causing them any unhappiness.

But a better remedy is indifference to ourselves, and being happy because the good is good, although we are far from it and may even suppose that we are destined to remain separated from it forever.

Love on the part of someone who is happy is the wish to share the suffering of the beloved who is unhappy. Love on the part of someone who is unhappy is to be filled with joy by the mere knowledge that his beloved is happy without sharing in this happiness or even wishing to do so.

Il faut éliminer le malheur autant qu'on le peut de la vie sociale, car le malheur ne sert qu'à la grâce et la société n'est pas une société d'élus. Il y aura toujours assez de malheur pour les élus.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

world. I love her for being so happy, Carol brooded. I ought to be that way. I worship the baby, but the housework——Oh, I suppose I'm fortunate; so much better off than farm-women on a new clearing, or people in a slum. It

There never will be a time when there won't be a large proportion of people who feel poor no matter how much they have, and envy their neighbors who know how to wear cheap clothes showily, and envy neighbors who can dance or make love or digest better.

It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment . . . the contentment of quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is dullness made God.

They had never had much time in Zenith for a serious attention to quarreling and being domestically vulgar. All day he had been at the office; most evenings they had seen other people; on Sunday there had been golf and relatives. They had time a-plenty now, equally for quarreling and for intimate and adventurous happiness together. One day they wrangled--and endlessly, because they were not quarreling over any one thing in particular but over the differences in their philosophies of life;

The difference between laughing your head off and shouting your head off is that with one you are happy and with the other you are angry.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

I pray that his lot may be a happier one in that life than it has been in this.

Readers are HAPPY people!

CORO Aver senno è di molto il primo fondamento di una vita felice.»

Non dire felice uomo mortale, prima che abbia varcato il termine della vita senza aver patito dolore

William Blake:   He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Call no man happy until he is dead.