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Quotes About Happiness

Theoretical knowledge is not the exclusive domain of ivory tower intellectuals, but is, in fact, a crucial necessity of man's proper survival. Every bit of your mental contents is derived from some theory, and your success and happiness hinge on whether it is true or false, good or evil.
~ Mike Mentzer
Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Clever people have been pointing out for a long time that happiness is like good health: when it's there, you don't notice it. But when the years have passed, how you do remember happiness, oh, how you do remember it!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
oh, you faithless, unfortunate man!...Because of you I spent the whole night yesterday shivering and naked. I lost my nature and replaced it with a new one, I spent several months sitting in a dark closet thinking about one thing, about the storm over Yershalaim, I cried my eyes out, and now, when happiness has befallen us, you drive me away! Well, then I'll go, I'll go, but you should know that you are a cruel man! They've devastated your soul!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Clever people have long been aware that happiness is like good health: when you have it, you don't notice it. But as the years go by, oh, the memories, the memories of happiness past!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Ach, messer, moja ?ona, gdybym jÄ… tylko miaÅ', dwadzieÅ›cia razy mogÅ'a zosta? wdowÄ…! Ale, na szcz??cie, messer, nie mam ?ony i, mówiÄ…c szczerze, szcz??liwy jestem, ?e jej nie mam.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Ach, jak siÄ™ cieszÄ™! Nigdy w ?yciu tak siÄ™ nie cieszyÅ'am! Ale proszÄ™ mi wybaczy?, Azazello, ?e jestem naga. Azazello prosiÅ', ?eby siÄ™ tym nie przejmowaÅ'a, zapewniaÅ', ?e widziaÅ' nie tylko nagie kobiety, ale nawet kobiety kompletnie obdarte ze skóry(...).
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Mani pirms t?l? ce?a ir p?r??mušas skumjas. Messire, bet tas ta?u ir pavisam dabiski pat tad, ja cilv?ks zina, ka ce?a gal? vi?u gaida laime.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Nu-i aÈ™a c? [durerea] e perfect fireasc? chiar È™i atunci când omul È™tie c? la cap?tul acestui drum îl aÈ™teapt? fericirea?
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Uhvatila me tuga prije daleka putovanja. Zar ne, messire, ona je potpuno prirodna, ?ak i kada ?ovjek zna da ga na kraju toga puta ?eka sre?a ?
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Clever people have long been aware that happiness is like good health: when you have it, you don't notice it. But as the years go by, oh, the memories, the memories of happiness past!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Happiness is like good health: when you have it, you don't notice it. But as the years go by, oh, the memories, the memories of happiness past!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as we leave social conventions behind and come nearer to nature. All life's experience is shed from us and the soul becomes anew what it once was and will surely be again
~ Mikhail Lermontov
I become as easily accustomed to grief as to joy, and my life grows emptier day by day.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Tell me, does it amuse you very much to torture me? I ought to hate you. since I've known you, you've brought me nothing but suffering me.. Her voice trembled, she leaned towards head upon my breast. Perhaps that's why you loved me, I thought. Moments of happiness one forgets, but sorrow never.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Mais moi, je te le jure, en entendant ta voix, j'éprouve une félicité si profonde, si étrange, que les baisers les plus ardents ne pourraient la remplacer.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
D'où vient le vent, vient aussi le bonheur.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
To laugh is to live profoundly.
~ Milan Kundera
Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.
~ Milan Kundera
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
~ Milan Kundera
She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.
~ Milan Kundera