Quotes About Happiness

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.

Mas o mau humor não seria antes uma irritação íntima em razão do sentimento de nossa própria insuficiência, um descontentamento em relação a nós mesmos, ao qual se junta sempre a inveja em razão de uma vaidade idiota? Quando vemos algumas pessoas felizes, sem que para isso tenhamos contribuído, essa felicidade nos é insuportável.

Show me the man who has the courage to hide his ill-humour, who bears the whole burden himself, without disturbing the peace of those around him. No: ill-humour arises from an inward consciousness of our own want of merit, from a discontent which ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity engenders. We see people happy, whom we have not made so, and cannot endure the sight.

Ayr?ca yüre?imi de?il, akl?m? ve yeteneklerimi be?eniyor, oysa her ?eyin kayna?? yürektir: tüm gücün, tüm mutlulu?un, tüm kederin. Ah, benim bildiklerimi herkes bilebilir - ama yüre?imdir yaln?zca bana ait olan.

Por qué será que lo que colma de felicidad al hombre es al mismo tiempo la fuente de sus desgracias?

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.

God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?

do they know when we are well and happy? do they know when we recall their memories with the fondest love? In the silent hour of evening the shade of my mother hovers around me; when seated in the midst of my children, I see them assembled near me, as they used to assemble near her; and then I raise my anxious eyes to heaven, and wish she could look down upon us, and witness how I fulfil the promise I made to her in her last moments, to be a mother to her children.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.

Îmi pre?uie?te inteligen?a ?i talentele mai mult decât inima, care e totu?i singura mea mândrie, care e singurul izvor al oric?rei for?e, al oric?rei fericiri, al oric?rui necaz. Ah, ceea ce ?tiu poate ?ti oricine, dar inima mea e numai a mea!

Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, denn das Glück ist immer nah.

Es que tenía que ser así, que lo que hace la felicidad del hombre sea también la fuente de su desdicha?

Estará escrito en el destino del hombre que sólo puede ser feliz antes de tener razón o después de haberla perdido? ¡Pobre insensato! Envidio tu locura, envidio el laberinto mental en que te pierdes.

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Enjoy life, because life is phenomenal! It's a magnificent trip!

The purpose of life is to be happy.

The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.