Quotes About Happiness

Guai a coloro, dissi, che si servono dell'influenza che hanno su di un cuore per rapirgli le semplici gioie che esso sa procurare a se stesso!

Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

from desire I rush to satisfaction; from satisfaction I leap to desire.

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

Mußte denn das so sein, daß das, was des Menschen Glückseligkeit macht, wieder die Quelle seines Elendes würde?