All Quotes By Tag: Happiness

“I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment… an inner sense of fulfillment that’s relatively independent of external circumstances.”

“If you’re not getting happier as you get older, then you’re fuckin’ up”

“Dear me! how happy and good we’d be, if we had no worries!”

“Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.”

“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.”

“His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.”

“To fill the hour──that is happiness.”

“Tatsuya: What you have “right now” won’t necessarily continue on until forever…Hiro: … Yeah, I know.”

“God bless Dunkin’ Donuts.”

“The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.”

“I bring out the worst in you and you bring out the best in me.”

“We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.”

“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She underwent great sufferings, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.”

“You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!”

“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”