Quotes About Happiness

Y así, ninguna de ellas, como dije, se casó. Lo que no impedía que vivieran muy tranquilas y felices, en la gran casa, con su prado, su chopera, su huerta, sus viñas y todas sus grandes y hermosas tierras. Un bello río circundaba la finca, profundo y verde, bordeado de chopos ancianos, álamos y robles. Y más allá, en la ladera de las montañas, se alzaba el misterioso bosque.

Quizá la nostalgia sea un deseo; o el resplandor de un tiempo en el que creíamos ser felices.

Think of your mother and smile for all of the good precious moments.

I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.

Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.

Great Bacchus every trouble cures; Then drink as long as life endures. For, whilst we drain the rosy bowl, 'Tis all a sunshine of the soul!

Unhappiness does make people look stupid

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.

Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence a single hour. The sentiments that make it sweet to us, or at any rate tolerable, spring from a falsehood, and are fed on illusions. If, like God, a man possessed the truth, the sole and perfect truth, and once let it escape out of his hands, the world would be annihilated there and then, and the universe melt away instantly like a shadow.

The beautiful things I have seen are still so vivid in my mind that I feel the task of writing them would be a useless fatigue. Why spoil my pleasure-trip by collecting notes? Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

In 1920, shortly before he died, he was quoted in the New York Times saying, "My life was never destined to be quite happy. . . . Inherited wealth is a real handicap to happiness. It is as certain a death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.

The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise.

Avant de te connaître, j'avais rencontré le malheur, le désespoir. Avant de te connaître, allons donc, ces mots n'ont pas de sens. Tu sais bien qu'en te voyant la première fois, c'est sans la moindre hésitation que je t'ai reconnue.

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L'essentiel, c'est de ne pas mentir, et d'abord de ne pas se mentir. Ne pas se mentir sur la vie, sur nous-mêmes, sur le bonheur.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.