Quotes About Happiness

I was never one of those who collect many smaller joys to make a larger happiness as though putting together a bouquet of flowers. For me there had to be the one great ecstasy, the perfect happiness, a sun which then poured forth its rays of lesser delights. This sun may be at times clouded over, shrouded in fog, hidden by night; yet I know that it remains there, steadfast—a fixed star and not a wandering planet.

It was for me a constant source of hope and happiness to be able to feel that I could in a way shield Our Lord from the hostility which she really meant for Him, and, as it were, take upon myself the heavy cross which He had to bear on account of this soul; and I hoped, too, that I might thereby, perhaps, be helping towards the salvation of that soul itself.

You did right, my dear," said Mr. Alden. "People should have what they want on birthdays.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

Oh sì, furono giorni infelici, i più felici della mia vita.

Mañana me esperaban otros caminos. Fáciles, ruidosos, comunes. La fe a medias, las falsas banderas. Me resignaría a ello, ¿qué otra cosa podía hacer? Puesto que la seducción de la nada era inútil, repugnándole al corazón por tantos indicios dejarse persuadir por ella. Y ni la infelicidad, con su amarga miel, me servía ya.

Happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure which man possesses.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.

Happiness is gained by complying with the duties of whatever condition of life one is in, and you must constrain yourself to rise to that exalted station in which destiny has placed you.

I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it. If we prefer honour to life, it is because life is blighted by infamy; and if, in the alternative, man sometimes throws away his life, philosophy must remain silent. Oh,

I am of opinion that the only foreboding in which man can have any sort of faith is the one which forbodes evil, because it comes from the mind, while a presentiment of happiness has its origin in the heart, and the heart is a fool worthy of reckoning foolishly upon fickle fortune.

Io non ho bisogno di stima, né di gloria, né di altre cose simili; ma ho bisogno d'amore.

divertirli quanto più si potesse dal conversare col proprio animo, o almeno col desiderio di quella loro incognita e vana felicità.

Felicità da me provata nel tempo [4418]del comporre, il miglior tempo ch'io abbia passato in mia vita, e nel quale mi contenterei di durare finch'io vivo. Passar le giornate senza accorgermene; parermi le ore cortissime, e maravigliarmi sovente io medesimo di tanta facilità di passarle.

La felicità non è che il compimento

Tu dubiti se ci sia lecito di morire senza necessità: io ti domando se ci è lecito di essere infelici. ( Dialogo di Plotino e di Porfirio )

E tu pur volgi Dai miseri lo sguardo ; e tu, sdegnando Le sciagure e gli affani, alla reina Felicita servi, o natura. In cielo, In terra amico agl'infelici alcuno E rifugio non resta altro che il ferro. Mais toi aussi tu détournes Tes yeux des malheureux, ô nature, Méprisant les disgrâces, les peines, Tu ne sers que le bonheur, ce souverain. Dans le ciel, sur la terre, il n'est au malheureux D'autre ami, d'autre refuge, que le fer. (La vita solitaria, la vie solitaire)

Love is in vain if Luck isn't there! / Vano è l'amorese non c'è fortuna!

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta potè indovinar? Il suo mister come mai come mai fini Ahimè! un giorno uno studente in bocca la baciò e fu quel bacio rivelazione: fu la passione! Folle amore! Folle ebbrezza! Chi la sottil carezza d'un bacio così ardente mai ridir potrà? Ah! mio sogno! Ah! mia vita! Che importa la ricchezza se alfine è rifiorita la felicità! O sogno d'or poter amar così!