Quotes About Happiness

I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering- and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one's interest was not in the chief consideration in the other's thoughts.

I wish I were out of doors - I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries,not maddening under them!

Os serenos e generosos são apenas egoístas um pouco mais justos do que os tiranos – e a felicidade acabou quando as circunstâncias levaram ambos a perceber que os interesses de um não eram considerações importantes nos pensamentos do outro.

It is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world.

it is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world as you spend

I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.

I tell you I have nearly attained MY heaven; and that of others is altogether unvalued and uncovered by me.

Half thinking, half dreaming, happier than words can express.

A pity,' observed I, 'you're so hard to please - so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content!

I shall never be there but once more,' said the invalid; 'and then you'll leave me, and I shall remain for ever.  Next spring you'll long again to have me under this roof, and you'll look back and think you were happy to-day.

But he was too good to be thoroughly unhappy long.

I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My souls bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.

Why do you love him, Miss Cathy? - Nonsense, I do - that's sufficient. - By no means; you must say why? - Well, because he is handsome, and pleasant to be with. - Bad. - And because he's young & cheerful. - Bad, still. - And because he loves me. - Indifferent, coming there. And he will be rich and I shall be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband. - Worst of all.

melancholy sweeter than common joy.

l'égoïsme des natures tendres et généreuses est seulement plus justifié que celui des natures altières. Leur bonheur cessa donc quand les circonstances leur firent sentir à chacun que l'intérêt de l'un n'était pas l'objet principal des pensées de l'autre.

Do you believe such people are happy in the other world, sir?  I'd give a great deal to know. I declined answering Mrs. Dean's question, which struck me as something heterodox.  She proceeded: Retracing the course of Catherine Linton, I fear we have no right to think she is; but we'll leave her with her Maker.

Perhaps such fragile happiness could never have lasted, but the way it came to an end was worse than anyone could have imagined.

Why do you want to convince me there's no happiness in the world?

?udno je kako navika može oblikovati naš ukus i mišljenje; mnogi ne bi mogli zamisliti da postoji sre?a u potpunoj odvojenosti od svijeta...

Soy demasiado feliz, y, sin embargo, aún no lo soy tanto como quisiera serlo. La felicidad de mi alma aniquila mi cuerpo, y, no obstante, no le basta con lo que tiene...

I'm too happy, and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.

Catherine, njegovi najsretniji dani prestali su kad su po?eli vaši. Mislim da vas je prokleo što ste došli na svijet - barem sam to ja u?inio, pa bi baš bilo zgodno da vas prokune kad bude iz njega odlazio.

It is not my fault that I cannot eat or rest . . . I'll do both, as soon as I possibly can. But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water rest within arms' length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest . . . I've done no injustice, and I repent nothing. I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.

La Eternidad. Allí donde la vida no tiene límite en su duración, ni el amor en sus transportes, ni la felicidad en su plenitud