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Quotes About Happiness

So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the love so long awaited by Cosimo and which had now inexplicably arrived, and so lovely that he could not imagine how he had even thought it lovely before. And the thing newest to him was that it was so simple, and the boy at that moment thought it must be like that always.
~ Italo Calvino
In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.
~ Italo Calvino
When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.
~ Italo Calvino
Es preciso que entre las cosas pensadas y las cosas no haya más diferencias. Entonces seremos felices.
~ Italo Calvino
The dream of being invisible . . . When I find myself in an environment where I can enjoy the illusion of being invisible, I am really happy.
~ Italo Calvino
The facility of the entrance into another world is an illusion: you start writing in a rush, anticipating the happiness of a future reading, and the void yawns on the white page.
~ Italo Calvino
Yes, the empire is sick, and, what is worse, it is trying to become accustomed to its sores. This is the aim of my explorations: examining the traces of happiness still to be glimpsed, I gauge its short supply. If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
~ Italo Calvino
This is the aim of my explorations: examining the traces of happiness still to be glimpsed, I gauge its short supply. If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
~ Italo Calvino
Also in Raissa, city of sadness, there runs an invisible thread that binds one living being to another for a moment, then unravels, then is stretched again between moving points as it draws new and rapid patterns so that at every second the unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence.
~ Italo Calvino
Io tenevo dietro a Vug con l'animo diviso tra felicità e timore: felicità a vedere come ogni sostanza che componeva il mondo trovasse una sua forma definitiva e salda, e un timore ancora indeterminato che questo trionfare dell'ordine in fogge tanto varie potesse riprodurre su un'altra scala il disordine che ci eravamo appena lasciati alle spalle
~ Italo Calvino
If the cavaliere, heading toward the pirate ship, meant to reach this Zaira, she must be a woman who was there in those Ottoman countries. Maybe his whole life had been dominated by longing for that woman; maybe she was the image of lost happiness that he pursued by raising bees or designing canals.
~ Italo Calvino
Forse pagavo la felicità con la rinuncia a capire quello che vivevo
~ Italo Calvino
L'uomo contento non aveva camicia.
~ Italo Calvino
A los duelos suceden tarde o temprano acontecimientos alegres, es ley de vida.
~ Italo Calvino
[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.
~ Itay Talgam
Kdybych si mohl vybrat, pak bych se nenarodil. Ale když to už musí být, pak se chci s tím osudem smí?it a být š?astný.
~ Unknown
THAT BEGAN a spell of time when the high point of my days was the sugar on my cereal.
~ Ivan Doig
Remembered joy is twice sweet.
~ Ivan Doig
Nikada više ne planiram. Ja samo živim ovaj život. Ponekad kako želim, ponekad kako moram. Sitnice mi boje život. Sitnice su sre?a. Zato ja volim male stvari. I velike torbe. Svuda ih sa sobom nosim, jer sebi dugujem još poneku šetnju izme?u o?ekivanog i neplaniranog.
~ Ivo Andri?
O, Bože, zašto si mi dao srce koje me bez prestanka vu?e za daljinom i ljepotom nevi?enih krajeva? Zašto si u?inio da sre?a moja uvijek boravi ondje gdje mene nema?
~ Ivo Andri?
What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.
~ Ivo Andric
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
~ Izaak Walton
Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
~ Izabella Scorupco
We experience what life and death really are when we love, for in love we go out of ourselves, become capable of happiness and at the same time can be hurt.
~ Jurgen Moltmann