Quotes About Happiness

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure

They were gone, she hoped, to be happy, however oddly constructed such happiness might seem; as for herself, she was left with as many sensations of comfort as were, perhaps, ever likely to be hers.

No has de cambiar, por consideración a una persona, el significado de los principios y de la integridad, ni tratar de convencerte, o convencerme a mí, de que el egoísmo es prudencia y la insensibilidad ante el peligro certidumbre de felicidad.

You will allow for the doubts of youth and inexperience. I am of a cautious temper, and unwilling to risk my happiness in a hurry. Nobody can think more highly of the matrimonial state than myself. I consider the blessing of a wife as most justly described in those discreet lines of the poet—'Heaven's last best gift.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

dinero sólo puede dar felicidad allí donde no hay ninguna otra cosa que pueda darla. Más allá de un buen pasar, no puede dar real satisfacción, por lo menos en lo que se refiere al ser más íntimo.

En los buenos tiempos, nadie tenía un temperamento más alegre que el de ella o poseía en mayor grado esa optimista expectativa de felicidad que es la felicidad misma.

I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable.

Strange that it would!" cried Marianne. "What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" "Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness

Evlilikte mutluluk tümüyle ÅŸans meselesidir. Taraflar birbirlerini gayet iyi tan?salar da, hatta baÅŸtan çok benzer olsalar da, bu, mutluluklar?na en ufak bir katk?da bulunmaz. Sonradan daima deÄŸiÅŸmek için ç?rp?n?r, baÅŸlar?n? derde sokarlar; hayat?n? birlikte geçireceÄŸin kiÅŸinin kusurlar?n? ne kadar az bilirsen o kadar iyidir.

To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her.

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving ready-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honored.

The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do.

I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

Quería saber de él cuando ya no había la más mínima oportunidad de tener noticias suyas. Estaba convencida de que habría podido ser feliz con él, cuando era probable que no se volvieran a ver.

Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil take the rest, say I.

But it was her business to be satisfied—and certainly her temper to be happy; and all was soon right again.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives your pleasure.