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Happiness Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
- Laughing deeply is living deeply.
- How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three…
- Happiness is the longing for repetition.
- And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is…
- She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We…
- Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a…
- I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty…
- There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.
More Happiness Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach