Diminish Quote by Stendhal Download Open image “To describe happiness is to diminish it.” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diminish Happiness
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but… — Randy Moss Copy Share Image
I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more… — Aaron Rodgers Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia.… — Hermann E. Ott Copy Share Image
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed. — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
