Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.
— The Wild Ass's Skin
Quotes About Happiness
27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.
— Principal Doctrines
Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow and worry. But he loved him and preferred the sorrow and worry of love to the happiness and peace he had known without the boy.
— Siddhartha
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.
— Much Ado About Nothing
— Nicholas Nickleby
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
— The Story of My Life
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".
— An Apology for Idlers
I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.
— Letters to His Children
A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
— In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
— The Diary of a Young Girl
Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.
— My Story
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd
— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
— The Prophet
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
— On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
— Emma
You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.
— A Happy Death
Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.
— Anna Karenina
Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?
— In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.
— The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.
— A Life For God: The Mother Teresa Reader