Happiness Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image “Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living. — Benjamin De Hoyos Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
