A beautiful expression about love and happiness

To love is to find your own happiness in the happiness of another. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

* In this world, love is the adornment of people,
To be deprived of love is to be without friends.
The one whose heart has not clung to the drink of love,
He's a donkey, even though he doesn't wear donkey ears!
O. Khayyam.

* Contributing to the world is the only way to be happy. Hans Christian Andersen.

* The deeper and closer the kinship of souls, the more often it refuses signs. The purest symbol of harmony that has overcome language is an old peasant couple who sits in the evening outside their house and talks silently. One knows what the other is thinking and feeling. Words only destroy this unity. Oswald Spengler.

* The heart is the point of contact with the Divine. B. Vysheslavtsev.

* Only that love is fair that strives for the beautiful without causing offense. Democritus

* People's happiness lies in loving to do what they have to do. Claude Adrian Helvetius.

* Happiness is in change, not in acquisition. Jidu Krishnamurti.

* Happiness is the only thing you can give to someone else without taking anything away from yourself. Carmen Silva.

* Happiness is what you share, and it only multiplies. Stas Yankovsky.

* Love is when another person is happy necessary condition your happiness. Robert Heinlein.

* Happiness comes to those who work hard. Leonardo da Vinci.

* Perhaps, first of all, human happiness depends on solving the problem of love and marriage. Alfred Adler.

* The happiest person is the one who gives happiness to the greatest number of people. Denis Diderot.

* Happiness is pleasure without remorse. L.N. Tolstoy.

* You must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy. L. N. Tolstoy

* Happiness is an imaginary state that was previously attributed to ancestors; now adults usually attribute it to children, and children to adults. Thomas Sas.

* Misfortune can also be an accident. Happiness is not luck or grace; happiness is a virtue or merit. Grigory Landau.

* Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you catch it, the more it slips away. But if you shift your attention to other things, it will come and sit quietly on your shoulder. Victor Frankl.

* Happiness has never placed a person at such a height that he does not need others. Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger).

* Possessing all kinds of benefits is not everything. To receive pleasure from owning them is what happiness consists of. Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais.

* Everyone is only as happy as he knows how to be happy. Dina Dean.

* If you are afraid of misfortunes, then there will be no happiness. Peter I.

* In search of joy and happiness, a person runs away from himself, although in reality the real source of joy is in himself. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.

* There is only one undoubted happiness in life - to live for another. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky.

* In the edifice of human happiness, friendship builds the walls, and love forms the dome. Kozma Prutkov.

* There is only one happiness in life - to love and be loved. George Sand.

* Happiness is not a reward for virtue, but virtue itself. Spinoza.

* Life exists only where there is love. Mahatma Gandhi.

* The habit of being happy allows a person to largely free himself from the dominance of external circumstances. Robert Stevenson.

* A wise person is always and everywhere calm. After all, he does not depend on someone else’s and does not expect mercy from either fortune or people. Happiness is like home: if this happiness in his soul had come, it would have left there, but it was born in her. Seneca.

* Of all the pleasures of life, music is second only to love, but love is also a melody... A.S. Pushkin.

* A big obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness. Bernard Fontenelle.

* What happiness is the inexhaustible ability to love and believe! Everything that is overshadowed by love is not subject to death. Romain Rolland.

* When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but we often do not notice it, staring at the closed door. Helen Keller.

* Most people are only as happy as they decide to be happy. Abraham Lincoln.

* To love is good, to be loved is happiness. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

* Love must begin with self-love. He who does not love himself cannot love anyone else. Hugh Malcolm Downes.

* If we spend our lives on love, we will not have any extra time to complain or feel unhappy. Joseph Joubert.

* When you get a taste of your reality, then you will become a knower, not through writing, not through reading books, but by being, by experience. Osho.

* The highest happiness in life is the confidence that you are loved; they love for your own sake, or rather, they love in spite of you. Victor Marie Hugo.

* If someday, while chasing happiness, you find it, you, like the old woman looking for her glasses, will discover that happiness was right on your nose all along. George Bernard Shaw.

* If you want to be happy, be happy. Kozma Prutkov.

* There is nothing sadder than the life of women who only knew how to be beautiful. B. Fontaine.

* To be honest, inaccessible to the world and a courtesan for her husband means to be a woman of genius. O. Balzac.

* Only the ugly duckling is happy. He has time to think alone about the meaning of life, friendship, read a book, and help other people. So he becomes a swan. Just need patience! Marlene Dietrich.

* Health, stamina, power are great blessings, but they are useless if there is no pleasure in love. An ancient Indian saying.

* The first step to change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. Change is not something you have to do, it is something you allow to happen. Will Garcia.

* In order to achieve happiness, you cannot make happiness a goal, you need to strive for worthy goals, and then happiness can come as a reward for your efforts. John Start Mill.

* Happiness is not a destination station, but a way to travel. M. Runbeck.

* IN beautiful soul Sensuality and reason, duty and attraction are in harmony. F. Schiller.

* A person would not do anything if he waited for the moment when he could do it so well that no one could find a mistake in it. John Newman.

* A person must be happy. If he is unhappy, then he is to blame. And he is obliged to work on himself until he eliminates this inconvenience or misunderstanding. L.N. Tolstoy.

* It is impossible to solve a problem while being at the same level at which it arose. It is necessary to rise above it, rising to the next level. A. Einstein.

*Mediocrity condemns everything that exceeds its understanding. V. Belinsky.

* Having inclinations and being the master of them is more commendable than avoiding inclinations. Novalis.

* The reason for unhappy love for another is unhappy love for oneself. V. Levi.

* Love exists when your strong, tender feelings for another person are balanced by reason and deep respect. Judgments about a person are completely objective and rational. Ray Short, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin.

* Love does not primarily characterize relationships with specific person; it is a position, an orientation of character that determines a person’s relationship to the world as a whole, and not to just the “object” of love." Therefore, the cause of mania must be sought not in the particularity, the sublimity of the feeling itself, as has been done for many centuries, but in the character of the person experiencing it. Erich Fromm.

* Virtue does not consist in the absence of passions, but in the control of them. B. Shaw.

* Love is a creative act, creating a different life, conquering the “world,” overcoming race and natural necessity. In love, a person is affirmed, unique, unique. Everything impersonal, generic, everything that subordinates individuality to the natural and social order is hostile to love, its unique and ineffable mystery. There is not and cannot be a law for love; love knows no law. The creativity of love does not know obedience to anyone's will; it is absolutely daring. Love is not obedience, like family, but boldness, free flight. ON THE. Berdyaev.

* Power over oneself is the highest power, enslavement to one’s passions is the most terrible slavery. Seneca.

* Wild love should be feared just as much as hatred. When love is strong, it is always clear and calm. G. Thoreau.

* Too hot and ardent love eventually bores us and is harmful in the same way as too tasty food for the stomach. Ovid.

* Often a person has wealth and does not know happiness, just as he has women without meeting love. A. Rivarol.

* The essence of a pure marriage is perfect love; marriage is holy - when it is in truth and love; and without love, with deception, there is debauchery. V. Rozanov.

* The covenant of love for people is not a moral injunction; it is an attempt to help the soul open, expand, blossom internally, enlighten. S. Frank.

* Giving love is the basis of life. Giving must happen constantly, then there is always something to receive. Pure, unselfish love is the one that gives, it does not expect reward. A woman who does not know how or does not want to give a drink to a thirsty person will never become a source of eternal life. A man who rushes in just to get drunk will never get clean water. Giving love and giving with love is happiness. Receiving love and receiving without love is misfortune. Luule Viilma.

* Falling in love begins with mutual attraction between two people. At first it is just a chemical process. Have you ever noticed that as soon as you fall in love with someone, crowds of former admirers begin to pursue this person? It's funny, isn't it? You may know this from your own experience. Where were all these people looking when we were so alone? Paradoxical as it may seem, the easiest way to find love is to love yourself. It turns out to be a vicious circle: to find love, we must be attractive, but we are most attractive precisely when we love! Laura Day.

* You can become a “love magnet”, attracting partners to you, without any effort. How, you ask? Seek pleasure. Activities that bring pleasure cause the same psychological state as what we experience when we are in a state of love. The trick is that when there is no love in our lives, we give up the joyful and pleasurable activities that make us more attractive. Loving and being loved are natural states, so we don’t have to do anything to find love. As soon as you remove the obstacles yourself, love will definitely appear in your life. Laura Day.

• I wish you never have to fear that you will bring misfortune on the one you love. Charlotte Bronte
• The dishes are beating - fortunately, the head - to the hospital, the bird - in a cage, love - to separation. Yuri Tatarkin
• To arrange the happiness of those you love against their will and even in defiance of it means not loving enough. Damn kings
• Happiness is the conviction that we are loved, no matter what!
• Misfortune is like the rainy season; it is cool, bleak, unfriendly for both people and animals. However, at this time flowers and fruits, dates, roses and pomegranates are born. Walter Scott
• A man needs to be loved, and a woman needs to love sincerely to be happy.
• Family happiness is the limit of the most ambitious thoughts. Samuel Johnson
• Girls! May we have no less happiness than the sincere love of a dearly loved one can give, and may this happiness not be wasted in vain, but become a happy destiny mature people- our children. Elena Ermolova
• Those who walk by tears and blood are never destined to reach happiness. Not with opposition, but with agreement. Teach me, O earth, Teach me love. Nikolay Kolychev
• The highest happiness in life is the confidence that you are loved; they love you for your own sake, or rather, they love you in spite of you. Victor Marie Hugo
• What happiness is the inexhaustible ability to love and believe! Everything that is overshadowed by love is not subject to death. Romain Rolland
• To love means to desire to become the source of happiness for your loved one Robert Davydov
• Happiness is the ability to love someone and receive love in return. Rita Schiavone
• Only that person is worthy of happiness who is ready at any time to risk his body, his well-being, his life for a great cause. Theodore Roosevelt
• “There is no happiness in life!” – a favorite tattoo among repeat offenders.
• The more I believe in happiness, the more I receive it. Faith and happiness are insatiable lovers, giving each other gifts that rain down on us, breaking our skulls. Alexander Mozhaev
• Unfortunately, beauty is necessary for a woman. No matter what virtues she is endowed with, a man will not notice them if her appearance does not match them. This confirms my idea that sensuality plays a big role in men's love. Natalia Pushkina
• The most unbearable thing in love is calmness. Cloudless happiness can become boring; in life you cannot do without ebbs and flows with obstacles, and love flares up more strongly, and pleasure is valued more. Moliere
• It is wrong to say that happiness in love, money in the family or anywhere else... you only find happiness in variety. David
• It is equal happiness to be victorious or defeated in the battles of love. K. Helvetius.

Happiness is so simple. So simple that words cannot describe it. We can assume that happiness is alive and colorful, and as many people exist, there are so many varieties of happiness. Therefore, through statements about happiness, we will try to understand what it really is and what it can be.

Laws of happiness

Joseph Addison once noted that happiness is built on three laws.

1. Be busy.
2. Someone to love.
3. Something to believe in.

This is true, a person simply needs to do something, because the process of creation will fill life with meaning. When every day ends with the creation of something new, you involuntarily realize that this is happiness.

Love doesn't play either last role in creating happiness. Many statements about happiness are associated precisely with love as such.

And, of course, faith. Man is designed in such a way that he simply needs to believe in something and hope for something. Even atheists believe that they do not believe in anything. Well, yes, it turned out to be a pun, and yet, if you look at it, it really is so.

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Wise saying about the happiness of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, assures the reader that this very happiness lies in constantly doing what you love. And he's absolutely right. There are many examples of how selflessly people can play musical instruments, write scripts or draw. It doesn’t matter so much to them whether it’s day or night: the inner desire to do what they like more life, moves such people.

It's wrong to assume that people like this are geniuses, they're just lucky enough to experience what it's like to do what you love. Even if something doesn’t work out, even if difficulties arise in some matter, this only fuels their passion: they want to quickly overcome them in order to learn something new about their favorite craft.

Leo Tolstoy and Emile Zola supported Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko in his statement about happiness:

One of the most amazing misconceptions is the misconception that a person’s happiness lies in doing nothing.

L. N. Tolstoy

The only happiness in life is constant striving forward.

Love and spice

One ancient Indian saying says that health, stamina and power are useless if a person does not enjoy love.

Love is another criterion of happiness and a favorite lyrical direction in art, music and literature. It's hard to know when exactly this starts. When do we start looking for someone to love? Probably from the moment we are born we learn to love. First we are surrounded by family, then friends, some may have pets. We love cartoons and games, we love good weather and new sneakers. We love to learn something new and collect “secret information” in diaries. We love the whole world and feel that it loves us back.

But then comes the spicy, rebellious youth. We learn for the first time what “other love” is, and most of us are very disappointed in it. And when they are disappointed, they stop loving and do not want to be loved. You definitely won’t find happiness with this approach.

No one argues that loving and being loved is the greatest joy; statements about happiness do not forget to constantly remind us of this. But... no one can ever get what they don’t have themselves.

To find love, we must be attractive, but we are most attractive when we are in love!

Probably everyone has encountered a situation when for a long time you are alone, but then suddenly you fall in love, and they immediately begin to openly compete for you. This is exactly what Laura Day said: once you fall in love, you immediately become the most attractive person in the eyes of others. After all, happiness cannot help but attract.

Learn to give

Luule Viilma once showed the world a stunning statement about love and happiness:

Giving love and giving with love is happiness. Receiving love and receiving without love is misfortune.

When you really love someone, you give your best with pleasure and love, and the more you give, the happier you become. This is a simple axiom that cannot be refuted, no matter how hard one tries.

And a few more sayings about love and happiness. There is definitely something in them that will make you think:

At the very evil man his face lights up when he is told that he is loved. Therefore, this is happiness.

L. N. Tolstoy

There is only one happiness in life - to love and be loved.

The highest happiness in life is the confidence that you are loved. They love you for your own sake, or rather, they love you in spite of you.

V. M. Hugo

Find yourself

Someone once said that to find happiness you must first find yourself. Perhaps people are unhappy because they do not understand who they are and why they came. Abraham Lincoln correctly noted:

Most people are only as happy as they decide to be.

We ourselves stand on our own path to happiness. Why not make your childhood dream come true?! After all, as Sigmund Freud said:

Only making your childhood dreams come true can bring happiness.

Only we constantly forget about childhood dreams. Adulthood- another world and other laws. Here you think not about childhood dreams, but about how to pay for utilities and what to cook for dinner. And only sometimes, when you have a few hours of free time, you plunge into the past and remember how once at school your paintings (poems/essays/inventions/sports achievements, etc.) were recognized as the best, and then something went wrong not this way.

But you quickly dismiss this thought, realizing that, for example, an amateur artist cannot earn his bread and butter. An easel looks invitingly from under the closet; so many years have passed, but the hand has never raised itself to throw it away. You know that next to it lies a forgotten set of almost unused paints. Everything inside seems to be turning upside down, and you want to create something special again, but the alarm on your phone is already set for six in the morning and you go to bed, once again promising yourself to throw away this junk.

Sayings about happiness describe just such a situation. Unfulfilled dreams, regrets about the past, misunderstanding of oneself - all these are reliable anchors that keep a person on his path to happiness.

Journey

Happiness is not the station you arrive at, it is the way you travel.

M. Runbeck

Our life is a marathon, not a sprint, even if we start doing something together with someone and he gets ahead, this is not a reason to despair. You can always catch up on lost time, the main thing is to realize in time what exactly your happiness lies in.

A person must be happy. If he is unhappy, then he is to blame. And he is obliged to work on himself until he eliminates this inconvenience or misunderstanding.

L. N. Tolstoy

As he says folk wisdom: “Every person is the architect of his own happiness.” There is no need to shift this responsibility to someone else, there is no need to join someone active in order to establish yourself at his expense. Happiness does not tolerate such behavior - it is alive and comes only to those who can take care of it themselves. Happiness is not the result of effort, but a reward for conscientious work.

Aphorisms and sayings about happiness can tell you a lot:

The habit of being happy allows a person to largely free himself from the dominance of external circumstances.

R. Stevenson

The wise man is always and everywhere calm. After all, he does not depend on someone else’s and does not expect mercy from either fortune or people. Happiness is like home: if this happiness in his soul had come, it would have left there, but it was born in her.

If you ever find it while chasing happiness, you will, like the old woman looking for her glasses, discover that happiness was right on your nose all along.

J.B. Shaw

Only the ugly duckling is happy. He has time to think alone about the meaning of life, friendship, read a book, and help other people. So he becomes a swan. You just need patience.

M. Dietrich

In particular, I would like to note the statement of Marlene Dietrich. Happiness truly loves the patient. Those who can persistently and purposefully achieve their plans, who do not waste time and are ready to develop as a person, daily surpassing themselves yesterday.

Happiness is hidden in simple things. Often it is found in what is usually overlooked in the eternal rush of the journey called life. The rays of the spring sun, the azure sky, the health of yourself and your loved ones, true love and true friendship - how little, but at the same time, a lot is needed for happiness. But if these components are present, everything else will follow later, there would be arms and legs, a head on the shoulders and the ability to feel.

Happiness is like health: when it is present, you don’t notice it.

M. Bulgakov

Human happiness does not consist at all in dying well, but in living well.

M. Montaigne

M. M. Prishvin

Happiness increases by sharing it with others.

J. O. de La Mettrie

Happiness comes when everything that was previously annoying begins to bring pleasure.

A. V. Voloshanenko

You have to believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy.

L. N. Tolstoy

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the most important key to success. If you like what you do, you will definitely succeed.

A. Schweitzer

You can’t say much about happiness; it’s only about troubles that people can talk for hours. Everything is simple here: either it is there or it is not. Happy is the one who does not need to prove anything to anyone, the one who loves and is loved, the one who minds his own business and is surrounded by “his” people, faithful and devoted. This inner harmony, which cannot be achieved by buying expensive things.

As long as a person lives, he owes no one anything except to be happy. The only thing he can call a failure is that throughout his long life he never understood what happiness is and what its meaning is. They say that happiness lies in love or craft, but everyone must decide this dilemma for themselves.

And only for writers the topic of happiness is like a bone in the throat, because it is too pleased with itself, and there is no need to comment on it.

For me there is nothing more valuable in this life than presence on my path happy person capable of giving this happiness to others.

The main thing in our life is action. Only constant action and the absence of fear to move forward make life truly fulfilling.

Without making a significant contribution to your life, you will never expect reciprocity from her.

Proper prioritization and avoidance of abuse in meeting your needs is the key to a happy life.

For collectivism to bring happiness, it is necessary to learn, first of all, to competently master altruism and selfishness.

Only by giving happiness to other people can we find our own happiness.

Self-development and inner growth are two necessary aspirations for a purposeful and fulfilling life.

The quality of our life depends only on us - it is within the power of a person to make it both good and full of positive, and negative and gloomy

The level of your happiness depends on how much you strive for it and how much effort you put into this desire.

Read the continuation of the best aphorisms and quotes on the pages:

There is only one true law - the one that allows you to become free. Richard Bach

In the edifice of human happiness, friendship builds the walls, and love forms the dome. (Kozma Prutkov)

For every minute you are angry, sixty seconds of happiness are lost.

Happiness has never placed a person at such a height that he does not need others. (Seneca Lucius Annaeus the Younger).

In search of joy and happiness, a person runs away from himself, although in reality the real source of joy is within himself. (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi)

If you want to be happy, be it!

Life is love, love supports life in the indivisible (it is their means of reproduction); in this case, love is the central force of nature; it connects the last link of creation to the beginning, which is repeated in it, therefore, love is a self-returning force of nature - a beginningless and endless radius in the circle of the universe. Nikolai Stankevich

I see the goal and don’t notice the obstacles!

In order to live freely and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It's not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach

Possessing all kinds of benefits is not everything. Receiving pleasure from owning them is what happiness consists of. (Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais)

Corruption is everywhere, talent is rare. Therefore, venality has become a weapon of mediocrity that has permeated everything.

Misfortune can also be an accident. Happiness is not luck or grace; happiness is a virtue or merit. (Grigory Landau)

The peoples have made freedom their idol, but where on earth are the free people?

Character can be shown in important moments, but it is created in the little things. Phillips Brooks

If you work towards your goals, then these goals will work for you. Jim Rohn

Happiness does not lie in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do!

Don't solve the problem, but look for opportunities. George Gilder

If we don’t take care of our reputation, others will do it for us, and they will certainly put us in a bad light.

In general, it doesn't matter where you live. More or less amenities is not the main thing. The only thing that matters is what we spend our lives on.

I must lose myself in activity, otherwise I will die of despair. Tennyson

There is only one undoubted happiness in life - to live for another (Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky)

Human souls, like rivers and plants, also need rain. Special rain - hope, faith and the meaning of life. If there is no rain, everything in the soul dies. Paulo Coelho

Life is beautiful when you create it yourself. Sophie Marceau

Happiness sometimes falls so unexpectedly that you don’t have time to jump to the side.

Life itself should make a person happy. Happiness and misfortune, what a huckstering approach to life. Because of it, people often lose their sense of the joy of life. Joy should be as integral to life as breathing. Goldermes

Happiness is pleasure without remorse. (L.N. Tolstoy)

The greatest happiness in life is the confidence that you are loved.

Any unambiguity primitives life

The entire actual life of a person can deviate from his individual purpose, as well as from generally valid norms. With selfishness, we perceive everyone, and therefore ourselves, entangled in a motley veil of illusions, woven from stupidity, vanity, ambition, and pride. Max Scheler

Suffering has great creative potential.

Every desire is given to you along with the forces necessary to fulfill it. However, you may have to work hard for this. Richard Bach

When you attack the heavens, you must take aim at God himself.

A small dose of stress restores our youth and vitality.

Life is a night spent in deep sleep, often turning into a nightmare. A. Schopenhauer

If you deliberately set out to be less than you can be, I warn you that you will be miserable for the rest of your life. Maslow

Everyone is only as happy as he knows how to be happy. (Dina Dean)

Whatever happens tomorrow must not poison today. Whatever happened yesterday should not choke tomorrow. We exist in the present, and we cannot despise it. The joy of a burning day is priceless, just as life itself is priceless - there is no need to poison it with doubts and regrets. Vera Kamsha

Don't chase happiness, it is always within you.

Life is not an easy task, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Misner

Happiness is not a reward for virtue, but virtue itself. (Spinoza)

Man is far from perfect. He is sometimes more hypocritical, sometimes less, and fools chatter that one is moral and the other is not.

A person exists when he chooses himself. A. Schopenhauer

Life goes on when the way of life dies.

An individual does not have to be wiser than an entire nation.

We all live for the future. It is not surprising that bankruptcy awaits him. Christian Friedrich Goebbel

It is important to learn to accept yourself, to value yourself, no matter what others say about you.

To achieve happiness, three components are needed: a dream, self-confidence and hard work.

No man is happy until he feels happy. (M. Aurelius)

True values ​​always support life because they lead to freedom and growth. T. Morez

Most people are like falling leaves; they fly in the air, spin, but eventually fall to the ground. Others - a few of them - are like stars; they move along a certain path, no wind will force them to deviate from it; within themselves they carry their own law and their own path.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but we often do not notice it, staring at the closed door.

In life we ​​reap what we sow: he who sows tears reaps tears; whoever betrayed will be betrayed. Luigi Settembrini

If whole life many will come unconsciously, then this life no matter how it is. L. Tolstoy

If they were building a house of happiness, the largest room would have to be used as a waiting room.

I see only two paths in life: dull obedience or rebellion.

We live as long as we have hope. And if you have lost her, under no circumstances allow yourself to guess about it. And then something can change. V. Pelevin “The Recluse and the Six-Fingered”

The most happy people do not necessarily have all the best; they just do Furthermore what they do better.

If you are afraid of misfortunes, then there will be no happiness. (Peter the First)

All our lives we do nothing but borrow from the future to pay the present.

Happiness is such a monstrous thing that if you don’t burst from it yourself, then it will require at least a couple of murders from you.

Happiness is a ball that we chase while it is rolling and that we kick when it stops. (P. Buast)

Quotes and Aphorisms 05.04.2018

Dear readers, agree, we all want to be happy - this is perhaps the main human desire. But can anyone give an accurate definition of happiness? After all, we are all different, and everyone has their own happiness.

For some, happiness is when a deepest desire comes true. Some people don’t see themselves happy without a family. For others, happiness is impossible without successful career, and someone is happy because they are in love. Moreover, in different period In life, happiness for the same person can lie in different things, sometimes even completely opposite ones. And all this is reflected in aphorisms about happiness.

Remember the quote about the happiness of the heroine of the film “We'll Live Until Monday”? “It’s impossible to explain happiness... It’s like pinning a sunbeam to paper...” But we’ll still try.

It seems to me that the concept of happiness is best revealed not in dry definitions explanatory dictionaries, but in quotes and aphorisms about happiness.

Reflections of great people on happiness

Many sages and artists have thought about what happiness is and how to achieve it. All of them, of course, agreed on one opinion - man is the architect of his own happiness and it depends only on ourselves whether we can be happy. Quotes from great people about happiness also convey to us the idea that sometimes our happiness is much closer than we think.

“Once in a lifetime, happiness knocks on everyone’s door, but often everyone sits in the next tavern and does not hear the knock.”

Mark Twain

“Happiness is when you are understood, great happiness is when you are loved, real happiness is when you love.”

Confucius

“Happiness comes to those who seek it and think about it the least. Happiness is not an object to be searched for; it's just a state. You don't need to follow happiness, it should follow you. It should take over you, not you over it.”

John Burroughs

“The situation with happiness is the same as with a watch: the simpler the mechanism, the less often it deteriorates.”

“Hope for happiness, even if deceptive, never causes harm to a person, because it makes life easier.”

Lope de Vega

“If they were building a house of happiness, the largest room would have to be used as a waiting room.”

Jules Renard

“A person’s exceptional happiness is to be in his constant favorite business.”

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

“Happiness sells to impatient people a great many things that it gives freely to the patient.”

Francis Bacon

Mikhail Prishvin

“I believe happiness is harmony between what we want from life and the reality in which we exist. When our expectations and reality coincide, we are happy. But they don’t always coincide, to put it mildly.”

Vladimir Yakovlev

Just read these lines... It's not easy beautiful words. These meaningful happiness quotes are sure to get you thinking.

“Happiness begins with hatred of misfortune, with physiological disgust for everything that distorts and disfigures a person, with internal organic repulsion from everything that aches, groans, sighs...”

Maksim Gorky

“This is how fate sometimes plays with mortals: it either lifts them up, or casts them into the abyss. And this is how the world works that sometimes happiness already contains great misfortune.”

Pierre Corneille

“Happiness has never placed a person at such a height that he did not need a friend.”

Lucius Anyaeus Seneca

“Happy people do not achieve success: they are so at peace with themselves that they are simply not interested in anything else.”

Agatha Christie

“Happy is he who can see beauty in ordinary things, where others see nothing.”

Camille Pizarro

“And there is such silence in your soul that it seems you will suffocate from happiness...”

Eldar Ryazanov

“Behind the door of a happy person there should be someone with a knocker, constantly knocking and reminding him that there are unhappy people and that after a short period of happiness, misfortune comes.”

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Perhaps even on the threshold of death a horseshoe of happiness is nailed.”

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

“Happiness excludes old age. He who retains the ability to see beauty does not grow old.”

Franz Kafka

Remember that intense feeling of happiness that you experience only in childhood? It was then that the feeling of it was most piercing and brightest. Quotes about children and happiness will help us remember this time.

“As we age, we lose many important qualities. And one of them is the gift of being happy just like that. To catch small joys on a hook and look at them with delight for a long time.”

Nadeya Yasminska

“Children immediately and naturally become accustomed to happiness, because by their very nature they are joy and happiness.”

Victor Hugo

“You cannot teach a person to be happy, but you can raise him so that he is happy.”

Anton Makarenko

“Happiness is an imaginary state that was previously prescribed to the ancestors; Now adults usually attribute it to children, and children to adults.”

Thomas Szasz

Unfortunately, it is impossible to return to childhood on your own. But our children can return us to it for a short time. After all, love for a child is one of the most acute and unforgettable moments of happiness.

“Happiness for a mother is the smile of a baby that she carried under her heart for months.”

“A woman’s most expensive necklace is the arms of a child hugging her.”

“When children are born, order, money, peace, relaxation disappear in the house - and happiness comes.”

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

Oscar Wilde

A sincere smile is a sign of happiness

When we are happy, we smile. Such a smile cannot be confused with a polite or welcoming one. From such a smile, the eyes glow, and the person is transformed. Quotes about smiling and happiness reflect this very accurately.

“Smile, even if you feel very bad, in pain and want to cry, smile for real, with sincere joy, straighten your shoulders and straighten up, as if you are happy and proud and want to sing with happiness. The body will believe and rejoice, maybe not immediately, but very quickly, it simply does not know how to truly suffer when you sincerely smile. And after the body, the soul will rejoice again..."

Maria Semenova

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The cheerful expression on the face is gradually reflected in the inner world.”

Immanuel Kant

Briefly about happiness

Sometimes it doesn’t take a lot of words to describe your vision of happiness. Evidence of this short quotes about happiness - very laconic, but at the same time deep in meaning.

“To think that someone else can make you happy or unhappy is simply ridiculous.”

Buddha

“The wise man forges his own happiness.”

Titus Maccius Plautus

“Whiteness has a lot of shades. Happiness, like spring, changes its appearance every time.”

Andre Maurois

“There is no complete happiness without an admixture of suffering.”

William Shakespeare

“Happiness is like health: when it is there, you don’t notice it.”

Michael Bulgakov

“Happiness is pleasure without remorse.”

“The wickedest man’s face lights up when he is told that he is loved. Therefore, this is happiness...”

Lev Tolstoy

“There is and cannot be anything more terrible in the world than eternal happiness.”

Bernard Show

“How rarely we meet happiness... What a pity that sometimes we cannot save it...”

Yuri Kolchak

“Happiness is not an easy thing: it is difficult to find within yourself and it is not easy to find outside of yourself.”

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

“Happiness has no comparative degree.”

Joris de Bruyn

“There is no such thing as chronic happiness, like unmelting ice.”

Alexander Herzen

“We are tormented not so much by the thirst for happiness as by the desire to be known as lucky.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The only happiness in life is constant striving forward.”

Emile Zola

“Whoever does not remember past happiness is already an old man today.”

Epicurus

Short quotes with meaning about happiness once again confirm that happiness and loneliness are incompatible things.

Isuna Hasekura

"Man lives real life if you are happy with someone else’s happiness.”

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

“Happiness increases by sharing it with others.”

Julien Ofret de Lamettrie

“Happiness alone is not complete happiness.”

Alexandre Dumas the father

“Bringing happiness to someone is happiness in itself.”

Eiji Mikage

“A man increases his happiness to the extent that he gives it to others.”

Jeremy Bentham

“By striving for the happiness of others, we find our own.”

Plato

“We have no right to consume happiness without producing it.”

Bernard Show

About women's happiness

What is women's happiness? Children? Favorite person? Career? Is it even possible to describe it in one word? You can't do it alone. But several are possible. These are the kind of quotes about women’s happiness – short but succinct.

“A man’s happiness is called “I want”, a woman’s happiness is called “he wants!”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Women's happiness is the ability to move from one age to another. And a woman has three ages – daughter, wife and mother.”

Boris Akunin

“When you finally get what you wanted, it turns out it wasn’t what you wanted at all.”

Gertrude Stein

“If the woman in the house is happy, then the whole family is happy. If a woman is unhappy, no one is happy.”

How does women's happiness differ from men's? Well, besides the classic “if only a darling were nearby”? Sometimes completely unexpected things make a woman happy. Aphorisms about happiness with meaning will help us understand this.

“Very often a woman’s happiness does not come only because she has nothing to wear.”

“The most beautiful outfit of a woman is happiness. Wear it without taking it off!”
“When you put on heels, you feel like a chic woman, when you take them off, you feel like a happy person.”

« To a real woman you don't need much. A real woman needs everything!”

“And I’m happy by default. And I don’t intend to change the settings!”

“How to make a woman happy? Good question... And if you are looking for the answer, look for it in your woman. She will tell you everything herself. No, of course, she won’t talk about it as openly as you would like... Just listen to her, listen very carefully. Everything she says, everything she wanted to say, but didn’t say, everything she could have said, but didn’t want to...

There are no instructions for women's happiness, and if there were, then each woman would have her own. And what makes one person happy may not be part of another at all. There are also ingredients that are the basis of all compositions, but they have been found a long time ago. These are the answers that lie on the surface, and your task is to recognize the deep desires. It is so important for her that you understand, that you hear between the words, read between the lines about what it is... HER happiness.