Quotes About Happiness

J'aurais dû avoir deux cœurs, le premier insensible, le second constamment amoureux, j'aurais confié ce dernier à celles pour qui il bat et avec l'autre j'aurais vécu heureux. Amin Maalouf

U oba slu?aja, njihovo preživljavanje nije imalo za rezultat bogzna šta: borbu i jedno par?e sre?e.

Ako želite da budete sre?ni, ne treba po svaku cenu da bežite od nesre?e. Pre bi trebalo da gledate kako i zahvaljuju?i kome, nesre?u možete prevazi?i. ~ Boris Sirilnik ~

La felicidad sobre el campo, el mayor número de decisiones correctas, como en la vida, parte del equilibro.

When he looks at me, the way he looks at me... He does not know, what I lack... Or - how - I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I - am, as I am. He's happy - to see me. Every time. Every day.

An absence of fear, Elisa realizes, can be mistaken for happiness, but it isn't the same thing. Not even close.

Today she is the richest woman in the world; she has everything she could want; she loves and is loved,

En el Distrito Federal nadie extraña a nadie, todos desean la ausencia del otro, su desaparición repentina, se sueltan algunas lágrimas a causa de las pérdidas y después viene la felicidad.

My heart filled with love, flowing over with joy, my own little drum that I like to march by!

The human tendency to evaluate one's well-being by comparing it with that of another is the cause of Duryodhana's distress.

Why should one like you envy Yudhishthira? . . . Be content with what you have, stay with your own dharma—that is the way to happiness. —Dhritarashtra to Duryodhana, Mahabharata II.5.3, 61

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

In this world when you ask of happiness Pain steps forward

In this world when you ask for happiness Pain steps forward

Life is a combination of happiness and pain. Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. Having a broad perspective on life gives you the strength to move forward through painful times. Know that you are very much needed in this world. With all its infinite possibilities, this life is a gift for it can become a fountain of joy and happiness not just for oneself but for many others as well.

How simple is to be happy, how difficult to be simple

Masa depan selalu menjanjikan harapan. Sebab Tuhan senantiasa menaburkan kebahagiaan. Jika kenyataan tida seperti yang kita inginkan, itulah cobaan. Dan kau harus yakin, Anakku, setiap cobaan adalah jenjang bagi kesempurnaan manusia

Freude, die einen Anlaß braucht, ist nicht Freude, sondern Vergnügen.

In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.

She [Madame Bovary] had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success—a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.

Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness. Sovereignly indifferent to our feelings, it is deaf to our lamentations. It is for us to endeavour to live with science, since nothing can bring back the illusions it has destroyed.