Quotes About Contentment

Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory.

La felicidad real siempre aparece escuálida en comparación con las compensaciones que ofrece la desdicha.

What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!

that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get.

The Savage shook his head. 'It all seems to me quite horrible.' 'Of course it does. Actual happiness always pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Prefiero ser yo mismo. Yo y desdichado, antes que cualquier otro y jocundo.

El secreto de la felicidad y la virtud consiste en amar lo que hacemos; es decir, el destino social que nos corresponde y del que no podremos ni querremos librarnos.

La actual felicidad siempre parece muy menguada en comparación de las compensaciones que brinda la miseria. (...) La felicidad nunca es grandiosa.

el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: amar lo que uno tiene que hacer. Todo condicionamiento va hacia esto: hacer que la gente ame su inevitable destino social.

that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All our conditioning aims at that: making people like their unavoidable place in Society.

What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!' With

La población óptima es la que se parece a los icebergs: ocho novenas partes por debajo de la línea de flotación, y una novena parte por encima. —¿Y son felices los que se encuentran por debajo de la línea de flotación? —Más felices que los que se encuentran por encima de ella.

Being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

La población óptima -dijo Mustafá Monds- es la que se parece a los icebergs: ocho novenas partes por debajo de la línea de flotación, y una novena parte por encima. -¿Y son felices los que se encuentran por debajo de la línea de flotación? -Más felices que los que se encuentran por encima de ella.

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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

La felicidad es un patrón muy duro, especialmente la felicidad de los demás.

What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness!

Szcz??liwo?? nigdy nie bywa wznios?a.

Para obtener la felicidad debimos renunciar a la verdad y a la belleza.

No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy – to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.

Çünkü zaten iÅŸlerini zekice yapacaklarsa genel bir fikirleri olmak zorundayd?, ancak toplumun iyi ve mutlu üyeleri olacaklarsa ne kadar az bilirlerse o kadar iyi olurdu.

Ama ba?ka bir ?ekilde mutlu olmak istemez miydin, Lenina? Ba?kalar? gibi de?il, kendi istedi?in gibi.