Quotes About Happiness

Il dort. Quoique le sort fut pour lui bien etrange, Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-meme arriva, Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.[71]

Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness. And

It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.

The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself...

La suprema felicità della vita è la constatazione d'essere amato, e amato per se stesso; anzi diciamo meglio, malgrado se stesso.

The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind

Conscience is a strange thing...No matter how great the happiness around me, my soul would have been in darkness. The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again, and great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves, and even loved in spite of ourselves.

Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true.

O mais belo altar – dizia – é a alma de um infeliz que agradece a Deus um benefício.

When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud, happy, her heart full to overflowing. Jean

Es propio de las personas felices desear que las demás también lo sean.

l riso è il sole che scaccia l'inverno dal volto umano.

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake... loved in spite of one's self.

Os maus têm uma maneira sinistra de ser felizes.

God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration.

Laughter is like sunshine; it chases winter away from the human face. Cosette

Happiness and despair do not breathe the same air. A man in despair participates in the life of others from a great distance; he is almost unaware of their presence; he has lost any consciousness of his own existence; he is a thing of flesh and blood but feels that he is no longer real; he sees himself only as a dream.

Les philosophes disent: Modérez vos joies. Moi je dis: Lâchez-leur la bride, à vos joies. Soyez épris comme des diables. Soyez enragés.

Il dort. Quoique le sort fut pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further, There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

j'avais le paradis dans le coeur.

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