Quotes About Happiness

all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.

there is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and lack freedom.

Alle glücklichen Familien gleichen einander. Jede unglückliche Familie ist auf ihre eigene Art unglücklich.

How was it I did not see that lofty sky before? And how happy I am to have found it at last! Yes! All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace. Thank God! . . .

El destino nos hace malas o buenas pasadas. Nuestra felicidad, amigo mío, es como el agua en las redes del pescador. Se las echa al mar y se hinchan; se las saca y se deshinchan. Así es la vida.

They haven't an idea of what happiness is; they don't know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no life at all,

I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray—but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!

I won't say life wouldn't be worth living without it, but it would be dull

In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfying of natural human needs, and that all unhappiness comes not from lack, but from superfluity;

I am like a hungry man who has been given food. He may be cold, his clothes maybe tattered, he may feel ashamed, but he is not unhappy. Me unhappy? No, this is my happiness.

Levin spent that evening with his betrothed at Dolly's, and was in very high spirits. To explain to Stepan Arkadyevitch the state of excitement in which he found himself, he said that he was happy like a dog being trained to jump through a hoop, who, having at last caught the idea, and done what was required of him, whines and wags its tail, and jumps up to the table and the windows in its delight.

People speak of misfortunes and sufferings," remarked Pierre, "but if at this moment I were asked: 'Would you rather be what you were before you were taken prisoner, or go through all this again?' then for heaven's sake let me again have captivity and horseflesh! We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. I

We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us. That I say to you," he

con amor siempre se es feliz, puesto que la felicidad está en uno mismo. Egor

but a new feeling of love for my children and the father of my children laid the foundation of a new life and a quite different happiness; and that life and happiness have lasted to the present time.

Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light on all around her.

un trabajo que, según parece, es de provecho; luego, el descanso, la naturaleza, los libros, la música, el amor al prójimo; esa es la felicidad para mí y no pienso que haya nada superior a ello.

ALL happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Urzeczywistnienie to przekona?o go o wiecznej omy?ce, jakiej ulegaj? ludzie, uto?samiaj?c szcz??cie ze spe?nieniem pragnie?.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation

Cristo, el hijo de Dios, ha venido a la tierra y nos ha dicho que esta vida no es mas que un corto momento, una prueba, y, sin embargo, nos empeñamos en encontrar en el la felicidad

wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to obtain that impossible, visionary, sinful happiness.

There was not a single cross or worried-looking face. All seemed to have left their cares and anxieties in the porter's room with their hats, and were all deliberately getting ready to enjoy the material blessings of life.

Italy. 'I must use my freedom while I feel so much strength and youth in me,' he said to himself. 'Pierre was right when he said we must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in it. Let the dead bury their dead, but while there is life we must live and be happy!' thought he.