Expressions of famous people about happiness.

When a person says: “I am happy! I'm happy!" - by this he expresses a good, positive or sublime internal state of his soul. So what is happiness? How can a person become happy? Is it possible to buy, give, or, for example, find or lose happiness? One person believes that having bought a car, he will be happy. Another thinks that happiness is a family, the third thinks that happiness is being with a loved one, and the fourth thinks that he has a cat or a dog. If a person is happy, then how long can his happiness last, how to keep his happiness and is it possible to keep it at all? Or maybe it only seems to a person that he is happy, simply because he has not seen anything else and he has nothing or no one to compare with. Sometimes happiness is waiting somewhere nearby, and sometimes you need to travel many thousands of kilometers to find your happiness. Great and famous people also expressed their thoughts on this topic. These thoughts are given below in the form of quotes, phrases, aphorisms and poems about happiness.

He is happy who passed through the torment,
Among the anxieties and passions of a noisy life,
Like a rose that blooms mindlessly
And easier on the waters of the running shadow.

And finally you will see
That happiness was not necessary,
What is this pipe dream
And half a life was not enough.

To be afraid of grief is not to know happiness.

All happiness will lose half of its shiny feathers when the lucky person sincerely asks himself: is it paradise?

If happiness consisted only in bodily pleasures, we would call bulls happy who found peas for food.

Remember, happiness is a courtesan, treat it as it deserves.

Happiness is like fairytale palaces, the doors of which are guarded by dragons, and it is necessary to fight to master them.

I'm not proud, I'm happy, and happiness is much more blinding than pride.

Happiness in solitude is not complete happiness.

We are not always strong enough to bear the happiness of others.

The only happiness in life is the constant striving forward.

The goal of life must be happiness, otherwise the fire will not burn brightly enough, driving force will not be powerful enough - and success will not be complete.

It is not bodily strength and money that make people happy, but righteousness and many-sided wisdom.

When the soul is sad, it hurts to look at someone else's happiness.

Happiness waits for no one. It roams the country in long white robes, singing a children's song: "Ah, America is a country, they walk and drink without a snack." But this naive baby needs to be caught, she needs to be liked, she needs to be looked after.

Why are you looking at me like a soldier at a louse? Overwhelmed with happiness?

You are not happy or unhappy because of what you have, or because of who you are, where you are, or what you do; your state is determined by what you think about all this.

Happiness is not an ideal of the mind, but of the imagination.

Theoretically, there is the fullest possibility of happiness: to believe in something indestructible in oneself and not strive for it.

Happiness excludes old age. Whoever retains the ability to see beauty does not age.

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

Happy enemies die
The unfortunate friend dies.

Therefore, I now evade my happiness and give myself over to all misfortunes - in order to test and know myself for the last time.

As long as you are happy, you have many friends; when times are dark, you will be left alone.

Happy is he who boldly takes under his protection what he loves.

Whoever enters the house of happiness through the door of pleasure usually leaves through the door of suffering.

We are happy only when we feel that we are respected.

We crave the truth, and find in ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, but find only sorrow and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, but we are incapable of either solid knowledge or happiness. This desire is left in our soul not only to punish us, but also to constantly remind us of the heights from which we have fallen.

Do not chase happiness: it is always in yourself.

Happiness comes from doing good deeds and helping others.

By seeking the happiness of others, we find our own.

How sad it is to dream about the most essential: without having it, a person is always unhappy, but having it is far from always happy.

Often a person has a fortune and does not know happiness, as he possesses women without meeting love.

Happiness does not accompany the cowardly.

Mind is undoubtedly the first condition for happiness.

Happiness does not help the negligent.

Wisdom - own mother happiness.

Being human means literally the same thing as being responsible. It means feeling ashamed at the sight of what seems to be undeserved happiness.

Let us enjoy our lot without resorting to comparisons - he who is tormented by the sight of greater happiness will never be happy.

When it occurs to you how many people are walking ahead of you, think about how many are following behind.

The loyalty of a friend is needed in happiness, but in trouble it is absolutely necessary.

He who is tormented by the sight of greater happiness will never be happy.

Happiness has never placed a man on such a height that he does not need a friend.

Happy is he who is happy at home.

There are two desires; the fulfillment of which can constitute the true happiness of a person - to be useful and have a clear conscience.

The happiness of an individual outside of society is impossible, just as the life of a plant pulled out of the ground and thrown onto barren sand is impossible.

Love destroys death and turns it into an empty ghost, it turns life from nonsense into something meaningful, it makes happiness out of unhappiness.

A person will be the happier the more clearly he understands that his vocation is not to accept favors from other people, but to serve others and put his life at the disposal of many people. A person who does this will be worthy of his possessions and will never fail.

Helvetius K.
“Neither the joys of love, nor power, nor power, nor honor / Can lead a mortal to the temple of happiness. / Wealth, perhaps, will reveal a beautiful temple? / No, - Wisdom says, - you hope in vain / And you are rich! That incorporeal metal / Has not given birth to blessings or sorrows from time immemorial.
"Happiness"

Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich
“People would understand that there is no happiness in inaction, that an unworking thought will go out, that you cannot love your neighbor without sacrificing your labor to him, that it is vile to live for free and that happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.”
"A Writer's Diary"

Mill John Stewart
“Better to be an unhappy Socrates than a happy fool.”
"Utilitarianism"

Pascal Blaise
"No one has succeeded in becoming happy if he was not led by faith in God."
"Thoughts"

Pascal Blaise
“All people strive for happiness - there are no exceptions to this rule; their methods are different, but the goal is the same ... Happiness is the motive for any actions of any person.
"Thoughts"

Russell Bertrand
"A happy life is to a large extent the same as a moral life."

Rousseau Jean-Jacques
“We can say with confidence that doing good for the sake of good itself is in our personal interests, since it gives inner satisfaction, satisfaction with oneself, without which true happiness is unthinkable.”

Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich
"All happy families similar to each other unhappy family unhappy in its own way."
"Anna Karenina"

Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich
“It seems to them that the existence of people are more and less good, happy; the existence of a poor worker or a sick person, they say, is bad, unhappy; the existence of a rich man healthy person good, happy; and they strain all the powers of their minds to avoid a bad, unhappy, poor and painful existence and arrange for themselves a good, rich and healthy, happy ... Generations are developing methods for arranging and maintaining these different, happiest lives, and the programs of these imaginary best, as they call their animal existence, lives are inherited. People, one before the other, try as best as possible to maintain the happy life that they inherited from the arrangement of their parents, or to make themselves a new, even happier life. It seems to people that by maintaining their inherited structure of existence or by arranging for themselves a new, better one in their opinion, they are doing something ... And supporting each other in this deception, people are often so sincerely convinced that in this crazy rush of water, the meaninglessness of which is obvious to them, and life consists, - they are so convinced of this that they turn away with contempt from the call to real life which they hear without ceasing: both in the teaching of the truth, and in the examples of the life of living people, and in their muffled heart, in which the voice of reason and love is never completely muffled.
"About life"

Chekhov Anton Pavlovich
"Happiness and joy of life is not in money and not in love, but in truth."
"Notebooks"

The word happiness itself raises many questions at once, however, like all words that are capacious in meaning, such as love, humility ... and life itself. Only happiness in this life is important, everyone is looking for it and we were born for happy life, but it is only necessary to follow it in accordance with one's destiny and with oneself naturally. Happiness happens at the moment of happy experiences, but there is also a deeper feeling of happiness. If moments pass and can be replaced by not entirely pleasant experiences, then deep happiness for life and at any moment of life.

First you need to understand yourself, your values and priorities - what we really need and value. And then see all the constituent aspects of life for you, included in the word happiness. There is a lot to talk about happiness, since it depends on our perception, which in turn depends on many internal qualities, lifestyle. And so you can endlessly philosophize, but only a little time in our age, with an ever-increasing flow of information. It is necessary to react to everything immediately and without thinking for a long time, otherwise as long as such a person thinks about happiness, it will always run away. Here it is necessary for everyone to develop a brief formula for this capacious and deep concept. The thoughts and statements of wise people who concentrated the general idea in these aphorisms can help a lot. Using aphorisms, you can make a complete picture of the thoughts of all mankind!

“If you don't know how to be content now with what you already have, you will never be content, even with the maximum benefits that you can now imagine.
Contentment is not the result of having a certain amount of goods, but the state of the Heart that knows how to be pleased and give thanks!”

Everyone, depending on his individual qualities, feelings, and experiences, is looking for his own happiness, in connection with which his formula sounds one way or another. Did the person feel or does he feel happiness at the time of formulating the formula? Each aphorism is a landmark, a beacon in the misty ocean. After reading or listening to other people's formulas for happiness, it's easier to compose yourself! Suddenly, after reading any of the quotes below, you will find something of your own, close to your heart. And who, if not the heart, is the pointing compass of our Path, Fate, Destiny, etc .....

So the quotes of the sages about happiness ...

To live and rejoice, you need only two things: firstly, lives, and secondly, rejoice

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Happiness is when you don't have to lie that you feel good.

Happiness is the ball that we chase while it rolls and that we push with our foot when it stops. (Pierre Buast)

Happiness is not in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do. (Lev Tolstoy)

If you want to be happy, be it. (Kozma Prutkov)

Happiness is physical health and peace of mind. (Epicurus)

There is no happiness equal to peace. (Buddha)

Do not chase happiness: it is always in yourself. (Pythagoras)

Happiness comes from doing good deeds and helping others. By seeking the happiness of others, we find our own. (Plato)

Happiness does not accompany the cowardly. Mind is undoubtedly the first condition for happiness. Happiness does not help the negligent. Wisdom is the mother of happiness. (Sophocles)

He who is tormented by the sight of greater happiness will never be happy. (Seneca)

There is no happiness in the world, there is only peace and will. (Pushkin A.S.)

The highest expression of happiness or unhappiness is most often silence; lovers understand each other better when they are silent, and the passionate, passionate speech spoken at the grave touches only outsiders, but it seems cold and insignificant to the widow and children of the deceased. (Chekhov A.P.)

We would be much happier if we cared less about it. (Pierre Buast)

Almost everyone is sure that they will be happy in the future, and they are sure that they were happy in the past. (Pierre Buast)

A happy person is a riddle, the answer to which can only be written on a gravestone. (Pierre Buast)

Happiness lies only in peace, not in fuss. (Blaise Pascal)

This is exactly how the prophet, unrecognized in the Fatherland, expressed it... A person must be happy. If he is unhappy, then he is guilty. And he is obliged to work on himself until he eliminates this inconvenience or misunderstanding. (Tolstoy L.N.)

Happiness is being content with what you already have. (Paulo Coelho)

There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the way. (Wayne Dyer)

Feeling unhappy all the time is an unaffordable luxury. (Paulo Coelho)

Happiness is not sought, like gold or winnings. It is created by themselves, those who have enough strength, knowledge and love. (Ivan Efremov)

The amount of happiness and grief is laid in us at birth. Monetary vicissitudes have little effect on him. (John Fowles)

Giving up your happiness is like throwing it into the ocean gems. This is worse than any sin. (Ken Follet)

Happiness is made up of little things, of small, insignificant joys. Huge happiness, like a brick from the sky, does not fall, but is painstakingly created. (Mirzakarim Norbekov)

Happy is he who thinks he is happy. (G. Fielding)

Happiness is your inner nature. It does not need any external conditions; it just is (Osho)

Happiness is when those you love love you

Happiness is the ability and talent to multiply happy people around you. (Sukhorukov L.S.)

Remember, happiness is a courtesan, treat it as it deserves. (Alexandr Duma)

The only happiness in life is the constant striving forward. (Emile Zola)

The goal of life must be happiness, otherwise the fire will not burn brightly enough, the driving force will not be powerful enough - and success will not be complete. (Theodore Dreiser)

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

The great science of living happily is to live only in the present. (Pythagoras)

If you ever find it while chasing happiness, you will find, like an old woman looking for her glasses, that happiness was always on your nose. (George Bernard Shaw)

When the heart is light, heaven shines in the dark dungeon. When there is darkness in thoughts, demons breed in the light of the sun. (I. Goethe)

Those for whom the days are similar to each other, stop noticing all the good things that happen in their lives. (P. Coelho)

In misfortune, fate always leaves a door for the exit. (Miguel de Cervantes)

If you can't have what you want, learn to want what you have... Happiness is on the side of the one who is content. (Aristotle)

Grief does not exist in itself, but in our imagination. (Cicero)

Great misfortunes are not lasting, and small ones are not worth attention. (D. Lubbock)

Everything passes, and this too shall pass. (Solomon)

The best part is not to abstain from pleasures, but to rule over them without being subject to them. (Aristippus)

As aptly noted... Everyone wants to live on top of a mountain, but all happiness, all development happens while you are climbing there. (P. Coelho)

Whoever considers himself unhappy - he becomes unhappy. (K. Helvetius)

The cure for unhappiness is not to think about it. When you think about misfortune, it does not go away, but increases. (Old Indian saying)

The constant, never-ending search for happiness is real life.

Happiness is not a life without worries and sorrows, happiness is a state of mind.

Actions don't always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Grief can, of course, hide the soul, but it does not endure secret happiness. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)

If happiness consisted in bodily pleasures, then we should call bulls happy when they find peas to eat. (Heraclitus of Ephesus)

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)

Life gives a person, at best, a single unique moment, and the secret of happiness is to repeat this moment as often as possible. (Oscar Wilde)

True happiness by its nature loves solitude; it is the enemy of noise and luxury and is born chiefly out of self-love. (Joseph Addison)

How can real happiness come from wealth, if you have to endure suffering to acquire wealth? (Thomas Aquinas)

Those who see happiness in gaining material wealth will never be able to become truly happy. (Ali Apsheroni)

When the soul is sad, it hurts to look at someone else's happiness. (Alphonse Daudet)

It is better to be unhappy with reason than to be happy without reason. (Epicurus)

It is easy for the happy to teach the unfortunate. (Aeschylus)

It is not bodily strength and money that make people happy, but righteousness and many-sided wisdom. (Democritus)

The varied definition of happiness shows that it is unfamiliar to us. (Pierre Buast)

Once in a lifetime, happiness knocks on everyone's door, but often this one sits in a nearby tavern and does not hear the knock. (Mark Twain)

O misfortune! It is the foundation of happiness. Oh happiness! It contains misfortune. Who knows their limits? They don't have permanence. (Lao Tzu)

Happy is he who has really lived his life, having managed to fulfill everything that he was going to do good, good, useful to himself and others. (Ali Apsheroni)

There is no complete happiness with anxiety; complete happiness is calm, like the sea during the summer silence.

(Alexander Herzen)

Happiness and pleasure are nothing more than a fata morgana, visible only from a distance and disappearing when approached; that suffering and pain, on the contrary, have a reality, directly declare themselves and do not need illusions and expectations. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Happiness is on the side of the one who is content. (Aristotle)

Happiness is like health: when it is there, you do not notice it. (Michael Bulgakov)

Those who do not seek happiness will find it faster than others; for those who seek happiness forget that the most the right way to achieve happiness for oneself is to seek it for others. (Martin Luther King)

Happiness is a step before a dream, a nightmare is a step after...

Paradoxically, the person who does evil also wants to feel happiness. (Deanna Dean)

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

Happiness is to overcome oneself, the resistance of circumstances; the realization of true possibilities (Ruben Bagautdinov)

To be happy is easy! You just need to want it!

You can always catch happiness by the tail, the main thing is not to make a mistake with the tail, otherwise someone else's happiness can bite. (Venedict Nemov)

Happy is not the one who seems like this to anyone, but the one who feels like that. (Publius Sir)

By caring for the happiness of others, we find our own. (Plato)

Virtue is the leader, happiness is the companion. (Mark Tullius Cicero)

A person has two vocations in life: one that he chooses, the other that chooses him. Happiness when they match. (Ilya Shevelev)

In search of happiness, you lose joy. (Gennady Malkin)

In the pursuit of happiness, sometimes you just need to stop and be happy.

Fame rarely leads to happiness, and happiness even more rarely leads to glory. (Konstantin Melikhan)

Left to ourselves, we are forced to forge and seek our own happiness. (Oliver Goldsmith)

Our happiness is always in flight. It doesn't have a nest, it only has wings. (P. Eluard)

Everyone is the blacksmith of his own happiness, especially if he owns his own blacksmith. (Leszek Kumor)

In happiness be moderate, in misfortune be reasonable. (Periander)

A healthy beggar is happier than a sick king. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Happiness seems to be made to be shared. (Jean Racine)

Human happiness is somewhere between freedom and discipline. (Ivan Petrovich Pavlov)

Do not exalt yourself in happiness, do not humiliate yourself in misfortune. (Cleobulus of Linda (Cleovulus)

A person increases his happiness to the extent that he delivers it to others. (Jeremiah Bentham)

HAPPINESS is when you really want to go to work in the morning, and in the evening you really want to go home. (Nazim Hikmet)

Follow your happiness and the universe will open its doors to you where there were only walls.

A fool seeks happiness far away, a wise one grows it next to him. (James Oppenheim)

Everyone is the blacksmith of his own happiness: some forge him, others - cuckoo over him. (Ivan Chuiko)

How happy in paradise is he who is satisfied with his good and has an obedient son and wife. (Chanakya Pandit)

There is only one way to happiness - to stop worrying about things that are not subject to our will. (Epictetus)

HAPPINESS - the balance of reasonable desires and the possibility of their satisfaction. (Vyacheslav Shishkov)

Law of Happiness: Everyone who walks towards happiness stumbles over it the most. (Leonid S. Sukhorukov)

Happiness calls us on the phone, knocks on our door, waits for us on the street ... But we are always in a hurry. (Konstantin Melikhan)

Man is created for happiness, like a bird for flight. (Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko)

If you feel happy, don't analyze your happiness: it would be like crushing a beautiful butterfly in order to better see its beauty. (P. Mangegazza

When a person is happy, he is always good. But not always good people are happy. (Oscar Wilde)

There is no place for happiness in the souls of the cowardly. (Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra)

Not so good where we are not, how bad where we are. (Gennady Malkin)

And the blacksmiths of their happiness should observe safety precautions. (Leonid Krainov-Rytov)

False happiness does callous people and proud - this happiness is never communicated to others. True happiness makes them kind and sensitive - this happiness is always shared by others. (Charles Louis Montesquieu)

Love is an active desire for happiness...

Happiness is not a station, but a way to travel.

If there is no inclination of the heart, there will be no happiness. (Jean Baptiste Moliere)

To be surprised at nothing ... that is almost the only way to become happy and remain happy. (Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus

Whoever firmly endures misfortune, happiness is firmly for him. (Plavt (Titus Maccius Plautus)

Money spoils a person - he also wants happiness. (Boris Krutier)

Courage is half happiness. (Bashkir proverb)

Happiness is increased by sharing it with others. (Julien Offray de La Mettrie)

Happiness is for the most part on the side of the industrious man, as the waves and wind are on the side of the best swimmers. (Samuel Smiles)

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

Drunkenness does not give birth to vices: it reveals them. Happiness does not change morals: it emphasizes them. (Socrates)

Unfortunate is the man who does not do what he can and takes on what he does not understand. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)

Happy is he who discovers his inner wealth. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

BOREDOM is a misfortune happy people. (Horace Walpole)

Happiness is only where there is naturalness. (André Maurois (Emil Erzog)

Do not consider happy the one who depends on happiness. (Seneca)

Happiness is a fragile commodity. Handle him with care.

Happiness is not in the air - it is given with difficulty. (Abu Abdallah Jafar Rudaki)

Life is the path to happiness, but not everyone can overcome all stages of this path. (Ilya Shevelev)

The earth cannot live without the sun, and man without happiness. (M. Stelmakh)

How little a person needs to live happily! Therefore, do not create need for yourself. (Ali Apsheroni)

Whoever does not appreciate happiness, he is nearing misfortune. (Ibn Sina)

The measure of happiness is the desire to re-live your life. (Ilya Shevelev)

Whoever does not know how to be happy here, he, apparently, will forever grow up to it there. (Leonid S. Sukhorukov)

Happiness is not when it works out or when it works out, but when it works out. (about I.Goncharov) (Yu.Loshits)

There is no complete happiness with anxiety; complete happiness is calm, like the sea during the summer silence. (Alexander Ivanovich Herzen)

Man is born for happiness, even if he is conceived out of stupidity. (Mikhail Mamchich)

There is only one happiness in this world - and that is the happiness of being yourself (Osho)

The source of happiness is within

We each have our own idea of what happiness is. For some, happiness is a quiet and calm family life, someone is looking for an opportunity to realize themselves in creativity or business, and someone needs to help homeless animals for happiness. For the sick, happiness is being healthy. For the hungry - a piece of bread, and for the homeless - a roof over their heads. Many great minds have thought about what happiness is.

We have selected for you quotes about the happiness of great people. Sayings, sayings and aphorisms about happiness will help to better understand the nature of this phenomenon and figure out what happiness is for you. After all, it is no secret that even the most famous figures could be wrong and, therefore, their quotes about happiness can be both an expression of wisdom and an ordinary delusion.

Which statements are true and which are not - you decide.

Happiness - aphorisms, quotes, sayings

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

There is only one way to happiness: to overcome the anxiety that we cannot change.
Epictetus

Many seek happiness in areas above their level, others below. But happiness is of the same height as a person.
Confucius

Usually happiness comes to the happy, and unhappiness to the unfortunate.
François de La Rochefoucauld

The great science of living happily is to live only in the present.
Pythagoras

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

The real price of happiness is known only when it has already disappeared.
Daniel Sanders

Be happy. This is one way to be wise.
Gabriel Colette

Everyone is chasing happiness, not noticing that happiness follows them on their heels.
Bertolt Brecht

Being loved is more than being rich, because being loved means being happy.
Claude Tillier

The greatest happiness in life is the confidence that we are loved, loved because we are who we are, or despite the fact that we are who we are.
Victor Hugo

Time, money ... Happy is he who does not consider either one or the other.
Aleksey Ivanov

They say misfortune good school; may be. But there is happiness best university.
Alexander Pushkin

Actions don't always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nine-tenths of our happiness depends on health.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Do what makes you happy.
Osho

For happiness, one must either reduce desires or increase means.
Benjamin Franklin

One of the secrets of a happy life is to continuously give yourself small pleasures, and if some of them can be obtained with a minimum investment of money and time, so much the better.
Iris Murdoch

The only happiness in life is the constant striving forward.
Emile Zola

If you want life to smile at you, give it yours first. good mood.
Benedict Spinoza

If one or two friendly words can make a person happy, one must be a scoundrel to refuse him this.
Thomas Pan

If we seek happiness without knowing where it is, we run the risk of losing it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The task of making a person happy was not part of the plan for the creation of the world.
Sigmund Freud

We have only that happiness that we can understand.
Maurice Maeterlinck

A healthy beggar is happier than a sick king.
Arthur Schopenhauer

When the soul is sad, it hurts to look at someone else's happiness.
Alphonse Daudet

Others live happily without knowing it themselves.
Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues

Each blacksmith of his own happiness.
Sallust Gaius Sallust Crispus

So we never live, but only hope to live, and since we constantly hope to be happy, it inevitably follows that we are never happy.
Blaise Pascal

Unfortunate is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publius Cyrus

How a day well spent brings happy dream so a fruitfully lived life is satisfying.
Leonardo da Vinci

I'm born, and that's all it takes to be happy.
Albert Einstein

I am happy and satisfied because I think so.
Alain Rene Lesage

I am happy because I have no time to think that I am unhappy.
Bernard Show

Better is bread and salt in peace and without sorrow, than many dishes of great value in sorrow and grief.
John Chrysostom

People can be happy only on the condition that they do not consider happiness the goal of life.
George Orwell

The wise man forges his own happiness.
Plautus

Do not chase happiness: it is always in yourself.
Pythagoras

Happiness is not in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do.
Lev Tolstoy

Happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.
Fedor Dostoevsky

We don't know what will happen tomorrow; our business is to be happy today.
Sydney Smith

We take the following truths as self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights; that these rights include life, liberty, and the opportunity to pursue happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

There is no happiness without wormholes.
Horace

To enjoy happiness is the greatest blessing, to be able to give it to others is even greater.
Francis Bacon

Do not seek happiness too eagerly, and do not be afraid of unhappiness.
Lao Tzu

Love is finding your own happiness in the happiness of another.
Gottfried Leibniz

People cannot live forever, but happy is the one whose name will be remembered.
Alisher Navoi

You cannot appreciate the sweetness of life without tasting the bitterness of troubles.
Shota Rustaveli

It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary to live happily.
Jules Renard

One of the main signs of happiness and harmony is the complete absence of the need to prove something to someone.
Nelson Mandela

From the quotes we learned what happiness is in understanding famous people. How right they are is up to you.

For the Indians of the American Piraha tribe, for example, all these quotes are nothing more than talking about nothing. For this small tribe, which lives in four villages near the Maisi River, a tributary of the Amazon, being happy is a natural thing. They are almost like Buddhists - they live here and now. The past and the future do not matter to them. Piraha call themselves " the right people", and everyone else for them -" brains on one side. " They are considered the most carefree people on Earth.

But we are not Piraha. Therefore, it is natural for us to try to understand and explain the state of happiness. Even with the help of quotes and aphorisms of other people. Here, by the way, is another selection of sayings about happiness.

Be happy.

True happiness cannot be found if you only look for it. It comes through service to people, love and happiness that we bring to the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

True happiness by its nature loves solitude; it is the enemy of noise and luxury and is born mainly out of self-love.
Joseph Addison

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

Just as a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a well-spent life brings satisfaction.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

To be completely happy, it is not enough to have happiness, you must also deserve it.
Victor Marie Hugo

Yes, of course, happiness is necessary, but what kind? There is happiness - a case - this is God bless him, I would like happiness to come as a merit
Mikhail Prishvin

Who is cheerful is happy, and who is happy is a kind person.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

There are two desires, the fulfillment of which can constitute the true happiness of a person - to be useful and to have a calm conscience.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

A person is so arranged that he seems to look reluctantly and incredulously at happiness, so that happiness also needs to be imposed on him.
Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin

Whoever does not know how to use happiness when it comes, should not complain when it passes.
Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes

Whoever does not remember past happiness, that old man is already today.
Epicurus

Happiness is not in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

It is better to laugh without being happy than to die without laughing.
François de La Rochefoucauld

You can't find happiness in marriage if you don't bring it with you.
Unknown

Happy is he who, with small means, enjoys a good mood; unfortunate is he who, with great means, does not have spiritual joy.
Democritus

I see the essence of a happy life as a whole in the strength of the spirit.
Mark Tullius Cicero

He is happy who lives in conditions corresponding to his temperament, but he is more perfect who knows how to adapt his temperament to any conditions.

The inclination to joy and to hope is true happiness; a tendency to apprehension and melancholy is a real misfortune.
David Hume

Whether you are a king or a simple tiller, you will be truly happy only when there is peace and tranquility in your house.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

It is a great happiness to find a place in life that matches your talents.
Georgy Alexandrov

There is only one undoubted happiness in life - to live for another.

To the extent that a man spends himself for a great purpose, to the same extent he finds in his work the highest happiness.
Booker Tagliaferro Washington

Act like you're already happy and you'll actually be happier. Dale Carnegie

The greatest source of happiness is to forget yourself and honestly try to serve others.
Millicent Fenwick

Do you feel like smiling? What can you suggest in this case? Two things. First, force yourself to smile. If you are alone, whistle or purr a tune or song. Act as if you were already happy and that will lead you to happiness.
Dale Carnegie

Where there is no striving for happiness, there is no striving at all. The striving for happiness is the striving of strivings.
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

They say that misfortune is a good school; may be. But happiness is the best university.
A.S. Pushkin

Actions don't always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Making others happy is the surest way to become happy in this world; to be virtuous means to care for the happiness of one's own kind.
Paul Henri Holbach

The only true thing in life is to live for others.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

If happiness consisted in bodily pleasures, then we should call bulls happy when they find peas to eat.
Heraclitus of Ephesus

If you feel happy, don't analyze your happiness. It would be like crushing a beautiful butterfly in order to see its beauty better.
P. mantegazza

If we seek happiness without knowing where it is, we run the risk of losing it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

The seeker of happiness is like a drunk who can never find his home, but knows that he has a home.
Evelyn Waugh on the Battle of Crete in 1941

Who is the happiest of people? One who appreciates people according to their merits and rejoices in their successes as well as in their own.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Personal happiness is impossible without the happiness of others.
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky

Better is bread and salt in peace and without sorrow, than many dishes of great value in sorrow and grief.
John Chrysostom

Many people are confused about what constitutes true happiness. Happiness is achieved not by pleasure, but by loyalty to a worthy cause.
Helen Keller

We have no right to consume happiness without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw

On a narrow path, hold your step and let the traveler walking towards you pass. Take a third part for yourself with food, and give the steel to your neighbor. Here is the secret of how to always be happy in this world.
Hong Zicheng

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

We are all disoriented by the generally accepted guidelines for happiness.
Ishkhan Gevorgyan

To enjoy happiness is the greatest blessing, to be able to give it to others is even greater.
Francis Bacon

Wealth does not make a person happy, but happiness makes a person rich. Jonathan Zakarin

Some people need only happiness to be happy.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Few understand how much their happiness depends on their own work, on the fact that they do not remain in idleness.
John Barrows

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