Афоризмы о счастье

One mustn`t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert (French writer)

 

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Gustave Flaubert

 

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

Albert Schweitzer (Alsatian theologian, organist, philosopher)

 

Occupation alone is happiness.

Samuel Johnson (English writer, critic, linguist)

 

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain (American writer)

 

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo (French poet, writer and playwright)

 

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all.

OgdenNash (American poet)

 

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli (British politician, Prime Minister)

 

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer (German philosopher)

 

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (British writer)

 

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch (Ancient Greek historian, writer – moralist)

 

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell (English mathematician, philosopher and social critic)

 

We are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (French writer-moralist)

 

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

William Somerset Maugham (English writer)

 

Only vegetables are happy.

William Faulkner (American writer)

 

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway (American writer)

 

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer (American philosopher)

 

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere (где-то в другом месте).

Agnes Repplier (American essayist)