When you ask most people what they want from life, you often hear the following phrase in response: “I want to be happy!” This is, of course, very good, but what is happiness? Few can answer this question, and when you ask it, most are at a loss. There is no universal answer to it, since each person has his own concept. In this article we will try to analyze the definition of this concept, what is needed in life for real happiness, how to achieve it, and so on.
What is real happiness and what does it consist of?
There is a widespread idea in society that happiness is when a person is doing well with his family life, career, financial situation, family relationships, health, etc. But in fact, this feeling is abstract. We do not experience happiness all the time, it is just a short moment for which a person may think - yes, I am happy for one reason or another.
You cannot feel this feeling in the past or future, it is a moment from the present that you fill with emotions yourself. This state is fleeting and it depends only on your perception whether you feel happy or unhappy. There are people for whom this feeling is not associated with material wealth, family, career and other points that we listed above. For them, spiritual development, a feeling of freedom and independence in front of other people is happiness. Moreover, they absolutely do not care about such things as money, success and recognition.
Based on everything that has been written, in order to feel happy, you can follow two paths, each of which you choose independently.
- External world. Achieving financial freedom and independence, health, success in career, family life and other aspects. When you achieve certain results in any industry, you will feel short-term happiness, but it quickly passes as a person gets used to the circumstances. Material objects are not able to give this feeling for a long time. Moreover, you may be disappointed because you do not feel real happiness from achieving your goals.
- Inner world. It’s a completely different matter when a person begins to search for this feeling within his personality. He achieves harmony and balance with himself in any area of life. All this gives complete satisfaction from existence, and a person does not have a question about what happiness is. He begins to see it in everyday things - the laughter of children and the joy of loved ones, health, the beauty of nature and other moments.
If we sum it all up, then only moving along these two paths together will allow us to achieve absolute happiness in life.
What is the secret of true happiness in life?
There is no special secret. A person feels happy (no matter in what area - family, financial, career) only when he fully understands his purpose and meaning of life, decides on his true goals and desires, and successfully achieves them stage by stage. Happiness is awareness of your life and a complete understanding of what should be done. This feeling depends much less on external circumstances, and more on internal ones.
Take a closer look at small children, remember yourself as a child. A child is happy for no particular reason, he enjoys every moment of existence - when he walks barefoot through puddles after rain, catches his first fish in the pond, sees a car or tractor on the street. He does not need to acquire or achieve anything for this sensation. As the child grows up, he becomes immersed in problems and becomes so dependent on material things that he cannot enjoy life and the current moment.
What prevents a person from feeling true happiness in life?
Only you can stop yourself from having this feeling. Thinking and perception of life are key in this matter. Positive thoughts and actions aimed at achieving the desired result can make a person happy. If negative thoughts prevail in your head for the most part, then all this will lead to depression and stress.
Look at the world around you through children's eyes, appreciate every moment of life, fill it with positive personalities, do what you love, and so on. Be sure to reconsider your priorities and set them correctly. By applying all these tips, you will definitely find harmony in life, a feeling of joy and inner peace. Only after this happiness will become an integral part of your nature, and you can confidently say that you are a happy person!
What is real happiness and how to find it? From the verses and hadiths, as well as from the words of righteous predecessors and wise scholars, we can clearly determine what is actually considered happiness and what steps need to be taken to achieve this state.
Every person on earth wants to be happy, regardless of their religious affiliation. Regardless of whether he is rich or poor, noble or simple, everyone wants to feel happy. It is difficult to find in the soul of a person an aspiration as vague, but at the same time as desirable as the desire for happiness. Few people can give a universal and clear definition of this concept. Someone imagines himself happy if he lies on the beach of Bora Bora island, serenely sipping a cocktail... Someone thinks that happiness is having a beautiful and obedient wife... Another will say that happiness is having a well-paid job or, conversely, don't work at all.
But what exactly is happiness? This can only be learned from those who have already achieved happiness and, moreover, surpassed everyone else in this.
Allah (Great and Glorified is He) sent His prophets and messengers to make people happy both in this world and in the Next. Prophets, like healers, healed people from diseases of misfortune, wrote them appropriate prescriptions, gave recommendations and led them to prosperity and a happy life. It is known that a successful doctor himself must be the furthest away from the disease for which he treats others. From this we can conclude that the happiest people were the prophets and their companions. And this is undoubtedly true.
Someone may object and say: “After all, the prophets and righteous people were subjected to the most difficult tests, the prophets were insulted, expelled and killed, there was no living place on the body of some of their companions from the torture they suffered because of their faith. Was Bilal happy when he was taken out into the desert in the middle of the day, thrown onto hot stones, crushed under a huge boulder from above and beaten with a whip, demanding that he renounce his faith? Was Ammar ibn Yasir happy, in front of whose eyes his father and mother were killed, and he himself was tortured so much that he was forced to verbally renounce his faith, remaining devoted to Islam in his heart? Were the companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) happy when they were forced to leave their homes, their families, their homeland and property, fleeing the persecution they suffered in their homeland, seeking shelter and salvation in foreign lands? If we could look at the army of the Prophet's companions today, we would see that many of them had various injuries received during the struggle for faith. Some were missing an arm, some were missing a leg, some were missing an eye, some were missing a nose, and others had their toenails falling off from difficult treks without good equipment. Many of them died far from family and loved ones and were buried in unknown graves. Of the four righteous caliphs, only one died a natural death, and all three of his followers were vilely killed. How great is happiness?
We will answer: “Yes!” If these people were not happy, they would never be able to make other people happy. After all, before Islam, Bilal ibn Rabah was one of a great many black slaves whose fate no one ever cared about, no one wrote down their biographies, no one was interested in their opinion. But it was the happiness, the sweetness of which Bilal felt in his faith, that helped him survive. The desire to preserve this happiness at all costs helped him rise above his tormentors and laugh at their impotence. It was the presence of spiritual richness and inner wealth that enabled the companions to meet unprecedented difficulties, overcome obstacles that others saw as insurmountable, and achieve goals that seemed impossible. They took one hardship after another, finding happiness in what they did and in what they had to endure. The memory of these great people warms the hearts of billions of people throughout history; they have become living examples of what people are capable of if they are truly happy.
Happiness is a word that is easy and pleasant to pronounce; it evokes only positive emotions in the heart of any person. This is a special feeling expressed in spiritual peace, when the heart is open and serene, and the conscience is calm. Everyone wants to achieve such a state of mind in their life. But, as we have already said, most people see happiness in completely different things, and, therefore, they follow the wrong path, wanting to achieve it, and they will never reach the desired goal. Because the top of their aspirations is always limited by the boundaries of the near world, their whole life is spent in search of perishable goods, which are sooner or later destined to disappear. Walking such a road, a person goes against his nature, against his nature, because he was originally created for life in Paradise and will not be satisfied with anything other than Paradise. As for this world, the highest happiness in this world is the awareness of the correctness of one’s path, leading to eternal happiness. As one Arab poet said:
O oppressor of your body! How desperately you strive to serve him!
You are burdening yourself with things that lead to obvious loss.
Turn to the soul, bringing its beautiful properties to perfection.
After all, you are a person with your soul, not your body.
If happiness lay in wealth, then Karun would be happy; if it lay in power, then Haman, the minister of Pharaoh, would be happy. But there cannot be happiness in something that is doomed to destruction. True happiness lies in obedience to Allah, the Ever-Living One, and in the renunciation of sins, because this is how the boundless success of the righteous is achieved. Allah said:
“Whoever is removed from Fire and brought into Paradise will achieve success.” (Quran, 3: 185).
True happiness is when a person follows the straight path of truth, follows the noble Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), fears Allah both externally and in the depths of his soul, in front of people and while remaining alone with himself. This is how he achieves success and happiness in both worlds.
Only relatively few people have knowledge of the essence of happiness and work to achieve it. These few have made their immediate life a ferry along which they move towards their future eternal Life, and no decorations and tinsel of this world distract them from their intended route. Allah (Great and Glorified is He) said:
“Those who desire life in this world and its decorations, We will reward them in full for their actions in this world, and they will not be deprived.
They are the ones who will receive nothing but Fire in the Hereafter. Their efforts in this world are in vain, and their deeds are useless." (Quran, 11: 15-16).
Allah Almighty also said:
“If anyone desires a quick life, then We will soon bestow what We wish upon whomever We wish. And then We will give him the Hellfire, where he will burn despised and rejected.
And if someone loves the Hereafter and strives for it in the proper way, being a believer, then his efforts will be rewarded.” (Quran, 17: 18-19).
“Whoever desired the arable land of the Hereafter, We will increase his arable land. Whoever desires the arable land of this worldly life, We will give from it, but he will have no share in the Hereafter.” (Quran, 42:20).
From this verse we see that a person who seeks the highest happiness in the next Life will definitely achieve it, because Allah has promised that he will not only give him what he seeks, but will also increase it many times over. The one for whom the limit of desires and happiness is the goods of this world will also be allocated a certain share of what he strived for, but all this is short-lived, and the result will be bitter.
All people want happiness, but not everyone achieves it, despite the fact that happiness is not an exclusive opportunity available only to a select few. Each of the people created by Allah has a set of means - moral, spiritual and physical - that can make him happy. The only difference is that someone wants to be happy, and someone only dreams about it. If a person really longs for happiness, then he works on himself, moves towards happiness with perseverance and diligence, follows the rules, takes appropriate measures, moving along the right road. If someone thinks that happiness is a gift that is given without certain actions, then this can only be called floating in the clouds of impossible dreams.
Whoever wants to make happiness a reality in his life must follow certain rules by which he will become happy in both worlds. Sheikh Abdurrahman al-Saadi (may Allah grant him mercy) mentioned some of the means to achieve happiness in his book “Useful means to achieve a happy life”:
1) Faith and righteous deeds
Allah (Holy and Exalted is He) said:
"The men and women of faith who acted righteously, We will certainly we will give you a wonderful life and we will reward the best of what they did." (Quran, 16:97).
“Whoever follows My faithful guidance will not be lost or miserable. And whoever turns away from My Reminder, a hard life awaits him and on the Day of Resurrection We will raise him blind." (Quran, 20: 123-124).
A wonderful grace-filled life is given to owners who perform righteous deeds. As for other people, even if they have the opportunity to enjoy an abundance of worldly goods, they feel constrained and dissatisfied. This is because the axis around which a person's happiness and peace revolves runs through his heart.
He also said: “ What can my enemies do to me!? Truly, my garden is all in my heart, if I leave, it goes with me, we never part. If I am put in prison, then this is solitude for me, if they kill me, then death is in the path of Allah ( shahada), and if they expel me from the country, then this is a tourist trip for me».
When, due to the slander of sectarians and schismatics, Ibn Taymiyya was actually arrested and imprisoned, he was brought to the prison fortress, he entered, looked at his place of detention and said: “A fence with a gate will be built between them, on the inside of which there will be mercy, and on the outside there will be torment.” (Quran, 57:13). Later, already in captivity, he said: “ If I could fill this entire fortress with gold, then, in my opinion, even then I would not be able to thank her for this mercy. A prisoner is one whose heart is imprisoned and does not remember Allah, and a captive is one who is a prisoner of his desires».
Ibn al-Qayyim also said about him: “I swear by the knowledge of Allah, I have never seen a person who lived more happily in his life than he did. Despite the fact that the teacher lived in very difficult conditions, he was the happiest of all. I have never seen a more generous man, no one whose heart had the same strength, and who was so cheerful. The freshness of contentment was always reflected on his face.”
2) Benevolence towards Allah's creations
By doing good deeds and helping other people and even animals, a person himself becomes better and happier, cleanses his soul, receives a charge of joy and positive emotions, and takes away sadness, sorrow and worries. Allah treats us the same way we treat His slaves. Imam Ibn al-Qayyim said:
« Whoever shows gentleness to the servants of Allah, Allah himself will show gentleness; whoever does good to people, Allah will do good to him; whoever is generous to people, Allah will be generous to him; whoever benefits people, Allah will benefit him who will hide the mistakes and misdeeds of people, Allah will also hide the one who made it difficult for people to reach the blessings of Allah, and Allah will make the path to His blessings difficult for him; whoever was merciful to people, Allah will show His mercy to him, who treated the creations of Allah in any way thus, in exactly the same way Allah will treat this person both in this world and in the Next. Allah's help will be sufficient for a person as long as that person benefits His creatures"(end of Ibn al-Qayyim's words). Allah Almighty said:
“Many of their secret conversations do not bring good, unless they call for giving alms, doing something approved, or reconciling people. Whoever acts in this way, seeking the pleasure of Allah, We will bestow a great reward." (Quran, 4: 114).
3) Engagement in some activity or useful science
A person must have some useful activity in life in which he finds peace, something that he likes, that is easier for him and that he always wants to do. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
“Act and it will be easier for everyone to do what they were created for.” .
Doing what you love calms a person down, relaxes the nerves, dispels anxiety, the soul experiences comfort and joy, activity and cheerfulness appear. Allah created man alive, which implies movement and action, this corresponds to his nature. Inaction is the lot of inanimate objects, and by becoming like them, a person dies spiritually. Inertia and an inactive life position are the main causes of depression, anxiety, worry and spiritual weakness.
If a Muslim can benefit his religion and his fellow believers with his favorite activity, then the return from this will be many times greater, because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
« Indeed, Allah will help His servant as long as he helps his brother » .
4)Busy with urgent matters
A person must concentrate all his thoughts on real affairs and events occurring in the present time, leaving fear of the future and sadness about the past.
A person should not live in fear of the future, because the future does not exist yet, which means it is stupid to be afraid of what does not exist. Also, you should not live in your past, constantly remembering what happened and lamenting past losses. Living in this way, a person is in an unreal world, he forgets that only the present plays a decisive role.
The past only gives us experience that we must use today, and the future gives us goals that we must work towards achieving now.
Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
“Strive for what benefits you, seek help from Allah and do not become weak (don’t give up). If trouble befalls you, then do not say: “Oh, if I had done such and such, then such and such would have happened,” but say: “This is the Predestination (Qadar) of Allah, as He willed, so He did. After all, the word “if” opens up the possibility for the deeds of the shaitan.”
In this hadith, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) ordered to act, and to do it with full determination to achieve the goal, without showing weakness and indecisiveness. At the same time, you should not be arrogant, you should always turn to the Lord of the worlds for help, because only He makes things easier and, by His mercy, turns any difficulty into ease. Also, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) warned against useless defeatist expressions such as: “ if…" These words do not carry any benefit, because the past cannot be changed, but they harm the present, as they paralyze a person’s will, distracting him from pressing problems and ways to solve them.
Everything we can do, we can only do today.
5) Remembering Allah often
What could be better than remembering Allah when it comes to peace of mind!? Every time, glorifying Allah, exalting His sacred names, we get closer to Him, gain strength and confidence. We remember that we have a caring Lord who guides us through this life, who has given us countless riches and gifts. Allah (Great and Glorified is He) said:
“He leads the straight path of those who turn to Him in repentance. They believed, and their hearts calmed at the remembrance of Allah. Isn’t it the remembrance of Allah that calms hearts?” (Quran, 13: 27-28).
Remembering Allah, we remember that we are not alone, that His help is close, and this makes us stronger. Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
“Whoever remembers Allah to himself, Allah will remember him to himself. Whoever remembers Allah in an assembly, Allah will remember him in a better assembly than the one in which He was mentioned." .
Can a person whom Allah remembers in the assembly of his close associates and pure angels be unhappy? What happiness could be greater than the realization that your name is mentioned before the Lord of the worlds among those who glorify, and not among the wicked, about whom Allah said:
“Do not be like those who have forgotten Allah and whom He has caused to forget themselves. They are wicked" (Quran, 59: 19).
6) In worldly matters you should look to the one below you
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) taught us not to succumb to the temptations of our neighbors, not to envy people, but, on the contrary, to appreciate the blessings given to us. This is best facilitated by thinking about the situation of those people who have a smaller share of material wealth than we do. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
“Look at those who are lower than you, and do not look at those who are higher than you, this is more worthy, so that the mercies of Allah are not trampled upon.” .
Also, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) taught us to remember the gifts with which He surrounded us, and how much we were given in comparison with other people. He said:
“If anyone sees a person in trouble and says: “Praise be to Allah, who gave me prosperity and delivered me from what you tested and gave me great superiority over many of those whom He created,” he will not will be affected by this misfortune, whatever it may be" .
If a person begins to look at those who have been given less, he will appreciate what he has more, thank Allah more and complain less about his situation. Remembering the gifts of Allah, a person forgets about his sorrows and troubles, which, of course, makes his life happier.
7) Look for the positive, avoid the negative
Among other things, a person himself should always be in search of everything good and positive, and avoid what brings sadness and grief. In many hadiths, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) taught his companions to seek and strive for what brings joy to them and the people around them. He taught them to give people a smile, to greet them with a welcoming face, to spread words of greetings (salaam) among themselves, to give gifts to each other, to say pleasant words, to give compliments, to avoid rudeness, to dress beautifully, to keep their bodies clean and to anoint themselves with perfume. Makhul al-Khuzali said: “ The one who wears clean clothes worries less, and the one who smells good has increased intelligence." The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), returning from difficult military campaigns, ordered his soldiers to wear the best and most beautiful clothes before entering their hometown, in order to appear with dignity in front of their brothers in faith and families, thereby giving pleasure to them and themselves.
This paragraph does not give advice to take any specific action, because people’s tastes are different, each person is happy about something different and sad about something different. The advice is that a Muslim always strives and seeks what benefits him and avoids what harms him. A person should tune himself into a cheerful mood, no matter what situation he is in, and ignore bad, evil thoughts and memories that weaken his mood, bring sadness and corrode his heart. This is a constant search for the best, work on oneself, which consists of independently stimulating a good mood, with the help of Allah. As in all things, the best remedy is prayer. Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him), turning to Allah with prayer, said: “ O Allah, if You wrote me down as unhappy, then from now on write me down among the happy ones.».
8) Seriousness of thoughts and refusal to have your head in the clouds
A Muslim must cultivate a strong, persistent heart, aimed at serious, realistic matters. He should avoid naive dreams that are not supported by serious intentions and real actions. There is a type of people whose representatives always want something, but never do anything to make their dreams come true. Such people live in their illusory world of eternal “wants” and unrealistic dreams, and when life puts them in their place, they experience great discomfort. They are most susceptible to melancholy, depression and impotence. Allah created this world and established cause-and-effect relationships in it, so that desires alone have never been enough to achieve a result. You should also avoid everything far-fetched, groundless fears, and unreasonable fears. Allah (Great and Glorified is He) said:
« It can't be achieved through your dreams. or the dreams of the people of the Book. Whoever commits evil will receive retribution for it and will not find for himself, instead of Allah, either a patron or a helper.
And those men and women who do righteous deeds, being believers, will enter Paradise, and will not be offended even by the size of the notch on a date stone." (Quran, 4: 123-124).
This is how it will be in the Future world, and this is how it will happen in this world. Dreams do not give results, only real actions bring results. And if our deeds are sincere and correct, then they will bear good fruit. If the deeds are bad, then their fruits will be bad.
9) Trust in Allah
Trust in Allah, hope in Him, awareness that there is a Great, Almighty, Generous, Merciful Creator who you can rely on, who you can trust in everything - all this brings confidence to a person’s life, gives him strength and adds optimism. Allah (Great and Glorified is He) said:
“Whoever trusts in Allah, He is sufficient. Allah completes His work." (Quran, 65:3).
When a person does not need anyone other than Allah, he is free and independent. No one will deny that freedom and independence are among the most important components of a happy life.
Allah (Great and Glorified is He) said:
“When you make a decision, then trust in Allah, for Allah loves those who trust.” (Quran, 3: 159).
Allah loves those who trust in Him, hope and trust His word, knowing that the Almighty never breaks His promise. How can a person loved by the Great Allah be unhappy!?
10) Remember what you have
If trouble happens to a person, he feels unhappy, he is tormented by worries and fears of possible losses, let him compare his losses with the gifts of Allah that he still continues to use. A person will see how many blessings surround him and in what prosperity he lives, then his heart will calm down, his soul will become bright, and his gloomy mood will recede.
In most cases, a person does not need to look for happiness, he already has it, he just needs to recognize it and agree with its presence. Happiness does not fall from the sky like a meteorite, happiness is an honest recognition of what each of us already has, it is our attitude towards the innumerable benefits with which our caring Creator has surrounded us.
“He has given you everything you asked for. If you count the favors of Allah, you will not be able to count them. Truly, man is unjust and ungrateful." (Quran, 14: 34).
The more a person understands his happiness and realizes the pricelessness of the blessings that Allah Almighty has given him, the more happiness he is given. Gratitude and sincere appreciation, by the will of Allah, generate even greater happiness, while ingratitude leads a person to suffering and dire consequences. Allah (Great and Glorified is He) said:
“Behold, your Lord declared: “If you are grateful, I will give you even more. And if you are ungrateful, then My punishment is strong.” (Quran, 14:7).
“Remember Me, and I will remember you. Give thanks to Me and do not be ungrateful to Me." (Quran, 2: 152).
In conclusion, I would like to note that this world can never become a source of complete and absolute happiness, because it is only a temporary abode of humanity, created not for pleasure, but for testing. But even here, Allah Almighty, in His boundless kindness and mercy, has given us a lot. True, complete and endless happiness lies beyond this life, it extends into eternity and is prepared for those who humble themselves before Allah in their souls, love Him with all their hearts, submit to Him in all their deeds and words, trust Him completely and completely, followed His Prophet and completed his life's journey as a Muslim devoted to Allah. In this regard, it should be noted that such opposite concepts as “ happiness" And " misfortune"are mentioned in the Koran only in one place, where a clear answer is given to the question “where should a person look for real happiness and what should be considered real grief?”
Competition project "No one is forgotten"
Target: the formation and development of the patriotic consciousness of schoolchildren, their assignment of standards of social behavior and values of civil society through specific facts of heroism (combat and labor) during the Second World War of the residents of Surgut.
- Introduction.
- No one is forgotten.
- He who brings happiness to others is happy himself.
- Katyusha.
- Really.
- Me and my peer.
3. Conclusion.
1. Introduction
5 years ago, in the year of the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory, young correspondents of the school newspaper “Pyaterochka” announced a public action “No one is forgotten.” Schoolchildren from grades 5 to 11 take part in it. Meetings with participants of the Great Patriotic War, labor front fighters, internationalist soldiers, participants in military operations in hot spots of the country - this has become a systematic work, during which juniors, through their own research experience, comprehend the enduring significance of the history of the Fatherland. The guys decided that none of the veterans should be deprived of attention and care. The guys not only collect materials for publication, but visit veterans and provide them with all possible assistance. Such meetings are unforgettable. They establish a connection between generations, which is so necessary for the preservation of historical memory. On the eve of Victory Day celebrations, junior correspondents invite the heroes of their publications to school.
2. No one is forgotten
He who brings happiness to others is happy himself
Vera Fedorovna Beskorovainaya worked in a military hospital in Grozny during the war. She was an operating nurse. She is now 82 years old. She has been living in Surgut for ten years, not far from our school. She was expecting guests. When we arrived, the samovar was already chugging away in the kitchen. The whole apartment was filled with the smell of fresh pie. Reserve corporal Vera Fedorovna showed her photographs of the war years. Among them is an image, yellowed with time, of a handsome military guy surrounded by two girls. We immediately recognized Vera Feodorovna in one of them. “And this is Lyubasha, we worked together.” Vera Fedorovna thought and, as if remembering something, said: “Let me tell you a love story!” It's good that we have voice recorders these days! We listened to Vera Feodorovna’s story, spellbound. And then everyone cried together. We think that you, the reader, will be touched by this story.
Frontline sisters
Nikolai Afanasyev did not sleep all night. Almost every half hour he rushed to the communal telephone and dialed this number, which he had not yet known yesterday. At the other end of the line, a dry, sleepy voice told him “no,” Nikolai again walked around the room, grabbed his Belomor, took a few puffs, and threw the cigarette butt into the overflowing ashtray. My right leg hurt terribly, although instead of it I had a knee-length stump for a year now. He knew that this pain was called phantom, illusory, but he clearly felt how painfully his fingers ached, how something sharp pierced the calf of his leg. He himself did not notice how he dozed off. And I woke up from a familiar voice in the loudspeaker: “Dear comrades, we congratulate you on the second anniversary of the Great Victory!” Afanasyev shuddered in surprise: today is May 9! How much connects him with this day. The day of his parents' wedding, the day he received the rank of lieutenant, the day of his first baptism of fire, the Victory Day he met at the Reichstag, the day he saw her, his Lyubasha... She worked as a nurse in a military hospital. Afanasyev was sent here for examination when he, a huge major, hung with orders and medals, who had marched throughout the war, never clucked, grunted, or groaned, suddenly noticed the blackening toes of his right foot. He reassured himself that everything would pass, that the war could not undermine his health, he was still cheerful, strong, strong. But the next medical commission sent him to the hospital... The examination did not last long. Nikolai could not understand what his illness meant in Latin, and only the sympathetic glances of the doctors during the rounds instilled something alarming in his soul. His premonitions did not change him. It turned out that frostbite on the legs led to gangrene. Need amputation. He endured the operation stoically. Not a groan or a sigh even after the anesthesia wore off. He woke up and saw her - blue-eyed, calm, affectionate. Probably now he won’t even remember what words he said to her then, but they just went straight from the hospital with a huge bouquet of white lilacs to the registry office. She carefully held his arm, and he confidently walked with one leg with the help of crutches. Who knows, maybe he wouldn’t have linked his fate with Lyubasha if he had known, if he could have assumed that this operation was not the last, if he could have guessed what kind of life Lyubasha, quite consciously, doomed herself to by becoming his wife . And she knew, she knew everything... Nikolai went to the phone again. Without listening to the answer, he began to spin around like crazy: “Aunt Nyura,” he shouted to his neighbor, “I am the father!” I'm having twins! Lyubasha is fine! Hooray!" Aunt Nyura, a timekeeper in the same workshop where Nikolai worked as a turner, wiped her eyes with the edge of her apron: “What a joy, Kolenka!” Lyubasha could not be seen behind a huge bouquet of white lilacs. “Darling, thank you,” he babbled, accepting from the nanny two warm lumps, packed in identical warm blankets. In his huge hands, Sasha and Nadya seemed very tiny... And 16 years later, at the school prom, he spins in a slow waltz with his daughter Nadya. Sasha chatted carefree with the girls, looking condescendingly at them from the height of his two-meter height. If it weren’t for the anxiety in the eyes of Lyubov Petrovna, watching every step change of this bright couple, no one would have noticed that Nikolai Vasilyevich was dancing on two prosthetics. A war veteran, a part-time student, a deputy and a communist, a highly qualified engineer - all this is about him. Labor awards were added to the combat ones. The people around him did not notice the changes in him. He never once complained of feeling unwell or in a bad mood. Meanwhile, this man underwent 29 operations. He was “cut up” piece by piece... he could have become a pensioner long ago, but this would have meant surrender to his illness. And he didn't want to give up. He persistently did not use the elevator, he hammered all the nails in the apartment himself, worked in the garden, and drove his disabled Zaporozhets” with special manual controls. After 15 years, only half a person remained from the huge handsome man. He was missing both legs, his left arm was amputated above the elbow, and only two fingers remained on his right. Instead of thick hair, half a head of baldness... On May 9, 1995, in Grozny, when he and Lyubasha were watching the Victory Parade in Moscow on TV, only ruins remained of their five-story house. They could not survive another war, but in peacetime. They say they died holding hands...
Olga Kosolapova, Alena Lazareva, Ekaterina Yuzyuk, diploma winners of the competition “Junkor - 2007”
Katyusha
In the small town of Ishim, Tyumen Region, in 1922, a girl was born with the simple, great and, perhaps, the most popular name in those years, Ekaterina.
The carefree and interesting life of young Katyusha took place in this city. She probably dreamed a lot about love, about family, she wanted to study... but the war began. I had to graduate from the school for junior commanders in the city of Novosibirsk. At the age of 20, in May 1942, she was called upon to defend the Motherland. Katya is sent to the front, to the 7th Guards Order of Lenin Fighter Air Division. She was only 20 years old then. The Nazis were rushing to Moscow. They tried to get around it from the north. Heavy fighting then broke out near Kalinin. The Kalinin Front was specially created for the defense of Moscow. They did not let the Nazis through to Moscow. They stood, they held on. This is also her, Katyusha’s, merit. Moscow's first salute to the winners was in honor of the victory at Kursk with twenty salvoes from 124 guns. Belarus is a land of swamps, bogs and swamps. It was not easy to fight here. Crossings, bridges. A girl named Katyusha endured everything, endured everything. Three years and eight months of a painful, long and unforgettable war. Katyusha, as part of her air division, provided radio communications between the command and units, combat aircraft, and ground troops. Based on her awards, you can study the geography of the country: Leningrad, Ukraine, the Baltic states... Ekaterina had a difficult journey, she fought on nine fronts: Volkhov, Kalinin, Kursk, Oryol, 2nd Baltic, 1st, 2nd Belorussian, 1st y Ukrainian and Ukrainian. With the military rank of Guard junior sergeant, she was a telephone operator in a communications platoon of a separate control company of the 39th engineer brigade. Katya was wounded in 1944, in East Prussia. Her right shoulder was broken by a shrapnel, and she was forced to become left-handed. When there were only 4 months left before the end of the war, she was sent to the 39th engineer brigade in Ukraine. The brigade reached Prague. The most memorable day, unforgettable for a moment, which left an indelible mark in the life of Ekaterina Filippovna, is the long-awaited Victory Day. She met him far from her homeland - in Czechoslovakia. Tears, joy - these are the feelings that gripped those people who were going for a breakthrough towards the Great Victory! The past war, the Great Patriotic War - an unhealed pain in the heart. Years pass, but the memories of the battles are still alive. We are very grateful to Ekaterina Filippovna Kaneva for her good-natured, very warm welcome, for the fact that she wants to convey to people the truth about the war, to convey to young people living in our time the memories of not only the days, but also the hours of past battles. We bow to the great people who defended the honor of our Motherland, in which, thanks to the efforts and courage of such people, our country celebrates the Great Victory Day for the 63rd time!
Little seamstress
We were waiting for Pyaterochka's guest, labor front veteran Praskovya Gavrilovna Timofeeva. When we agreed to meet with her, her voice seemed cheerful, youthful, and ringing to us. But after the very first question of our interview, her voice trembled and she began to cry. What difficult memories must have come over her. But she pulled herself together and began the story. Praskovya Gavrilovna was born in the Tomsk region in the village of Gorodishche. When the war began, she was in fourth grade. One day, teacher Anatoly Ivanovich said seriously, as if he were adults: “You are not my students, but the working class.” All the women in the village worked in the fields, and the men were drafted into the army. High school students were sent to a livestock farm. The younger ones were sent to the village of Nadym, where, by the way, Stalin was in exile in pre-revolutionary times. Praskovya was eleven years old when she and many girls had to become seamstresses. They worked in two shifts. Children sewed underwear for soldiers from coarse fabric. The girls' fingers were pricked with needles until they bled. In the artel named after May 1, that was the name of the sewing association, in addition to the seamstresses there were shoemakers. These were captured Germans. The Germans could not speak Russian for a long time, but they cursed well. Praskovya and her friends laughed at the Germans, but they soon became friends. She remembers the names of two shoemakers - Vanya Goglikh, Tolik Franko and the German woman Sonya and her son Karl. The German Sonya was a guard at the hostel. One day the girls went to see Praskovya’s aunt. We sat there too long and didn’t have time to look back when it was almost evening. They rushed as fast as they could. It was bitterly cold. They fell and got stuck in deep snowdrifts. The girls barely made it in time. During the war, it was impossible to be late, because in the morning you had to get to work on time. Then they were strictly punished, they could even judge. Time passed, the war continued, and the girls kept stitching and stitching on sewing machines. They didn't complain about fate. They were then the same age as I am now. Only, it seems, they had more endurance and patience. And then the long-awaited news was announced on the radio: “The war is over!” The cars stopped together, and Praskovya and her friends ran out into the street in tears and shouted with joy: “The war is over!” After the end of the war, Marya Ivanovna, the workshop foreman, sent the girls home to continue their studies. Praskovya graduated from seven classes and went to Tomsk, where she received the highest 8th grade as a master cutter, and at the same time studied to become an accountant. Since then, Praskovya Gavrilovna has been sewing her clothes herself. She lived with her husband Dmitry Dmitrievich Gudkov in love and harmony. Praskovya Gavrilovna is a very active person. She was a Komsomol member and a party member. In 1980, the husband died. That same year, Praskovya Gavrilovna and her older sister moved to Surgut. Here she worked as an accountant on a geological expedition. In Surgut, Praskovya Gavrilovna married Vladimir Dmitrievich Timofeev, a former officer. When her husband died, she became a deeply religious person. God helps her in everything. Praskovya Gavrilovna is a veteran of the labor front. This is the name given to those who forged Victory in the rear during the war. Their work has not been forgotten. Praskovya Gavrilovna has five medals. She rarely wears them. Shy. Her wish for the future generation: God forbid you experience what we experienced. I wish you guys the happiest childhood, so that you don’t go hungry, and I also wish you to be obedient.”
Really
More than 60 years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War.
Yes... for some this event is known from books and means nothing, but for others it is a terrible imprint, a bitter period of life! This war claimed millions of lives and was equally merciless to both old people and children. But there are people who bravely defended their Motherland and are happy to be alive. One of them is Valentin Vasilyevich Khronovsky. In general, the life stories of people like him should be passed down from generation to generation, so as not to forget and appreciate what we once got with such difficulty! Valentin Vasilyevich is a Hero with a capital H, but, in my opinion, the country has forgotten about him, and I consider it my duty to tell about this wonderful person. The future defender of the Motherland was born in July 1921 in the city of Zhitomir in Ukraine. Like all boys, he loved to play “war games”, not imagining that very soon he would have to “play”, but already live. As a young man, he joined the Ulyanovsk army and graduated from the regimental school for junior commanders in 11 months. For a person, everything happens for the first time, so the hero of my sketch, after a while, received his first platoon (at that time Valentin Vasilyevich had the rank of platoon commander). A year and a half before the start of the war, he was transferred from Ulyanovsk to Ukraine near Kanatop. And everything seemed to be fine: life went on at its own measured pace, there were sympathies, comrades, but the war began... Valentin Vasilyevich remembers this difficult time with tears in his eyes. How could it be otherwise (?!), because all his comrades and friends serving with him in the 347th regiment died! Few survived - 28 people, and among them he was a comrade in arms and an excellent commander, a man whose ingenuity, knowledge of military affairs, and most importantly, determination helped them survive! In general, I want to note that Valentin Vasilyevich was born wearing a shirt, because not a single bullet, not a single fragment hit him, he drowned twice, but remained alive! Of course, you don’t have many pleasant memories of that time, but still!.. Valentin Vasilyevich found his love for life on the battlefield! She was a partisan, he was a reconnaissance platoon commander... that’s how their love story began. After some time they got married, it was exactly a year before Victory Day! Valentin Vasilyevich and his wonderful wife Tamara had two daughters. They came to Surgut to live in peace and love. This is how greedy life is: it cannot give a person happiness in addition, it can only give in return. And this is the tragic part of the hero’s life: the war took away Valentin Vasilyevich’s mother and two brothers, leaving him completely alone in this world. But he was able to survive, and this is another important feat! Now Valentin Vasilyevich’s family consists of ten people: two daughters, two sons-in-law, three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and a daughter-in-law. The whole family loves him very much, appreciates and takes care of him. And although a loved one—his wife—has been gone for three years, there are still pieces of her throughout the entire generation, reminding of her every day. Valentin Vasilyevich lives in a small apartment, no different from any other, except that a person worthy of respect lives in it! But many not only do not understand this, but also with all their actions they show that they simply don’t care about all the veteran’s merits! Valentin Vasilyevich defended the Motherland for us - the future generation, and we... So several years ago, the windows in his apartment were broken out for calling on the “local punks” not to drink alcohol and not to smoke, because this was the sure guarantee for victory over the enemy: incredible health! Now Valentin Vasilyevich sees almost nothing, hears poorly, his clothes are several sizes too big (this is noticeable when he puts on his jacket with many medals and orders). By the way, the most important Order of the Red Star is missing - it was stolen by the Black Cat gang. But his soul and heart remained the same: strong and burning. P.S. Are we really so inhuman that we allow ourselves to forget about THEM?! Are we really so inhuman that we allow THEM to be hurt?! Are there really no people like THEM among us?!
Me and my peer
My classmate Marina Vorotyntseva and I were visiting labor front veteran Vera Sarapionovna Cherepanova. From her we learned a lot of memorable things about the years of the Great Patriotic War, about those days when she worked tirelessly. But then she was younger than we are now. Vera was born in 1929 in the village of Zyryanka, in the Tagil district of the Sverdlovsk region. Her family was very large. Vera had eight brothers and sisters. The war overtook Vera when she was only 11 years old. It was not possible to finish school; the collective farm needed workers. The village was completely deserted. Almost all the men were taken to the front, even the youngest. 60 people left – that’s more than half the population of the small village. Very few were brought back by this war. Vera's two older brothers served in the Marine Corps. The rest of the family, young and old, were busy working on the collective farm and on farms. It was impossible to evade work then. Vera Sarapionovna recalls: “Everything was on our shoulders. The people at that time were very friendly. They always helped each other and protected each other from troubles. There was no envy or resentment. That is why, according to Vera Sarapionovna, we won this war. For four years, Vera Sarapionovna worked in the rear, tirelessly. Thanks to our courageous front-line soldiers and home front workers, Victory remains ours! It is impossible to describe the delight that gripped everyone who learned that the long-awaited Victory had arrived! There was no limit to joy. On this day, May 9, everyone was given the first (only) day off in all the years of the war. Jubilation was heard everywhere: “Victory! Victory!". The people were joyful and happy. All the work and worries are not in vain. They didn’t think about awards then, but Vera’s work, like many of her peers, was noticed. Vera Sarapionovna has many awards. She treats them very touchingly and reverently. After all, this is the holy memory of those days, these are pages of her biography, these are pages of the biography of our country. When peacetime came, Vera Sarapionovna became a builder. She is a veteran of the labor front, celebrating her eightieth birthday and the 55th anniversary of the wedding of her and Sergei Ivanovich, also a veteran of the labor front, her support, support, the man who gave her love, wonderful children and hope for the future. Despite the fact that Vera Sarapionovna is the mother of five children, she is an active person, she has been in the thick of things all her life, and has been involved in social work. Vera Sarapionovna is a frequent visitor to our school. She really likes it with us. Not a single event in the city can take place without it. Vera Sarapionovna is very glad that she and everyone who forged the great Victory are not forgotten and remembered.
3. Conclusion
By preserving the memory of veterans, the children grow morally and spiritually. The newspaper “Pyaterochka” was awarded a certificate and a diploma of the 2nd degree for participation in the “Echo of Victory” competition, established by the deputy of the Tyumen Regional Duma S.V. Dubrovin. About 30 juniors were awarded diplomas from the Presidium of the Surgut Veterans Council, more than 20 - diplomas from the Surgut Board of the Union of Journalists of Russia. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper Serookaya Tatyana Grigorievna was awarded a commemorative medal of the Presidium of the Surgut Veterans Council. The “Pyaterochka” campaign - “No one is forgotten” was declared indefinite. One generation of juniors, like a relay baton, passes on the work they have started to the next generation.
8Quotes and Aphorisms 05.04.2018
Dear readers, agree, we all want to be happy - this is perhaps the main human desire. But can anyone give an accurate definition of happiness? After all, we are all different, and everyone has their own happiness.
For some, happiness is when a deepest desire comes true. Some people don’t see themselves happy without a family. For others, happiness is impossible without a successful career, while others are happy because they are in love. Moreover, at different periods of life, happiness for the same person can lie in different things, sometimes even completely opposite ones. And all this is reflected in aphorisms about happiness.
Remember the quote about the happiness of the heroine of the film “We'll Live Until Monday”? “It’s impossible to explain happiness... It’s like pinning a sunbeam to paper...” But we’ll still try.
It seems to me that the concept of happiness is best revealed not in the dry definitions of explanatory dictionaries, but in quotes and aphorisms about happiness.
Reflections of great people on happiness
Many sages and artists have thought about what happiness is and how to achieve it. All of them, of course, agreed on one opinion - man is the architect of his own happiness and it depends only on ourselves whether we can be happy. Quotes from great people about happiness also convey to us the idea that sometimes our happiness is much closer than we think.
“Once in a lifetime, happiness knocks on everyone’s door, but often everyone sits in the next tavern and does not hear the knock.”
Mark Twain
“Happiness is when you are understood, great happiness is when you are loved, real happiness is when you love.”
Confucius
“Happiness comes to those who seek it and think about it the least. Happiness is not an object to be searched for; it's just a state. You don't need to follow happiness, it should follow you. It should take over you, not you over it.”
John Burroughs
“The situation with happiness is the same as with a watch: the simpler the mechanism, the less often it deteriorates.”
“Hope for happiness, even if deceptive, never causes harm to a person, because it makes life easier.”
Lope de Vega
“If they were building a house of happiness, the largest room would have to be used as a waiting room.”
Jules Renard
“A person’s exceptional happiness is to be in his constant favorite business.”
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
“Happiness sells to impatient people a great many things that it gives freely to the patient.”
Francis Bacon
Mikhail Prishvin
“I believe happiness is harmony between what we want from life and the reality in which we exist. When our expectations and reality coincide, we are happy. But they don’t always coincide, to put it mildly.”
Vladimir Yakovlev
Just read these lines... These are not just beautiful words. These meaningful happiness quotes are sure to get you thinking.
“Happiness begins with hatred of misfortune, with physiological disgust for everything that distorts and disfigures a person, with internal organic repulsion from everything that aches, groans, sighs...”
Maksim Gorky
“This is how fate sometimes plays with mortals: it either lifts them up, or casts them into the abyss. And this is how the world works that sometimes happiness already contains great misfortune.”
Pierre Corneille
“Happiness has never placed a person at such a height that he did not need a friend.”
Lucius Anyaeus Seneca
“Happy people do not achieve success: they are so at peace with themselves that they are simply not interested in anything else.”
Agatha Christie
“Happy is he who can see beauty in ordinary things, where others see nothing.”
Camille Pizarro
“And there is such silence in your soul that it seems you will suffocate from happiness...”
Eldar Ryazanov
“Behind the door of a happy person there should be someone with a knocker, constantly knocking and reminding him that there are unhappy people and that after a short period of happiness, misfortune comes.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
“Perhaps even on the threshold of death a horseshoe of happiness is nailed.”
Stanislav Jerzy Lec
“Happiness excludes old age. He who retains the ability to see beauty does not grow old.”
Franz Kafka
Remember that intense feeling of happiness that you experience only in childhood? It was then that the feeling of it was most piercing and brightest. Quotes about children and happiness will help us remember this time.
“As we age, we lose many important qualities. And one of them is the gift of being happy just like that. To catch small joys on a hook and look at them with delight for a long time.”
Nadeya Yasminska
“Children immediately and naturally become accustomed to happiness, because by their very nature they are joy and happiness.”
Victor Hugo
“You cannot teach a person to be happy, but you can raise him so that he is happy.”
Anton Makarenko
“Happiness is an imaginary state that was previously prescribed to the ancestors; Now adults usually attribute it to children, and children to adults.”
Thomas Szasz
Unfortunately, it is impossible to return to childhood on your own. But our children can return us to it for a short time. After all, love for a child is one of the most acute and unforgettable moments of happiness.
“Happiness for a mother is the smile of a baby that she carried under her heart for months.”
“A woman’s most expensive necklace is the arms of a child hugging her.”
“When children are born, order, money, peace, relaxation disappear in the house - and happiness comes.”
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”
Oscar Wilde
A sincere smile is a sign of happiness
When we are happy, we smile. Such a smile cannot be confused with a polite or welcoming one. From such a smile, the eyes glow, and the person is transformed. Quotes about smiling and happiness reflect this very accurately.
“Smile, even if you feel very bad, in pain and want to cry, smile for real, with sincere joy, straighten your shoulders and straighten up, as if you are happy and proud and want to sing with happiness. The body will believe and rejoice, maybe not immediately, but very quickly, it simply does not know how to truly suffer when you sincerely smile. And after the body, the soul will rejoice again..."
Maria Semenova
“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“The cheerful expression on the face is gradually reflected in the inner world.”
Immanuel Kant
Briefly about happiness
Sometimes it doesn’t take a lot of words to describe your vision of happiness. Evidence of this are short quotes about happiness - very laconic, but at the same time deep in meaning.
“To think that someone else can make you happy or unhappy is simply ridiculous.”
Buddha
“The wise man forges his own happiness.”
Titus Maccius Plautus
“Whiteness has a lot of shades. Happiness, like spring, changes its appearance every time.”
Andre Maurois
“There is no complete happiness without an admixture of suffering.”
William Shakespeare
“Happiness is like health: when it is there, you don’t notice it.”
Michael Bulgakov
“Happiness is pleasure without remorse.”
“The wickedest man’s face lights up when he is told that he is loved. Therefore, this is happiness...”
Lev Tolstoy
“There is and cannot be anything more terrible in the world than eternal happiness.”
Bernard Show
“How rarely we meet happiness... What a pity that sometimes we cannot save it...”
Yuri Kolchak
“Happiness is not an easy thing: it is difficult to find within yourself and it is not easy to find outside of yourself.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
“Happiness has no comparative degree.”
Joris de Bruyn
“There is no such thing as chronic happiness, like unmelting ice.”
Alexander Herzen
“We are tormented not so much by the thirst for happiness as by the desire to be known as lucky.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The only happiness in life is constant striving forward.”
Emile Zola
“Whoever does not remember past happiness is already an old man today.”
Epicurus
Short quotes with meaning about happiness once again confirm that happiness and loneliness are incompatible things.
Isuna Hasekura
“A person lives a real life if he is happy with the happiness of others.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“Happiness increases by sharing it with others.”
Julien Ofret de Lamettrie
“Happiness alone is not complete happiness.”
Alexandre Dumas the father
“Bringing happiness to someone is happiness in itself.”
Eiji Mikage
“A man increases his happiness to the extent that he gives it to others.”
Jeremy Bentham
“By striving for the happiness of others, we find our own.”
Plato
“We have no right to consume happiness without producing it.”
Bernard Show
About women's happiness
What is women's happiness? Children? Favorite person? Career? Is it even possible to describe it in one word? You can't do it alone. But several are possible. These are the kind of quotes about women’s happiness – short but succinct.
“A man’s happiness is called “I want”, a woman’s happiness is called “he wants!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Women's happiness is the ability to move from one age to another. And a woman has three ages – daughter, wife and mother.”
Boris Akunin
“When you finally get what you wanted, it turns out it wasn’t what you wanted at all.”
Gertrude Stein
“If the woman in the house is happy, then the whole family is happy. If a woman is unhappy, no one is happy.”
How does women's happiness differ from men's? Well, besides the classic “if only a darling were nearby”? Sometimes completely unexpected things make a woman happy. Aphorisms about happiness with meaning will help us understand this.
“Very often a woman’s happiness does not come only because she has nothing to wear.”
“The most beautiful outfit of a woman is happiness. Wear it without taking it off!”
“When you put on heels, you feel like a chic woman, when you take them off, you feel like a happy person.”
“A real woman doesn’t need much. A real woman needs everything!”
“And I’m happy by default. And I don’t intend to change the settings!”
“How to make a woman happy? Good question... And if you are looking for the answer, look for it in your woman. She will tell you everything herself. No, of course, she won’t talk about it as openly as you would like... Just listen to her, listen very carefully. Everything she says, everything she wanted to say, but didn’t say, everything she could have said, but didn’t want to...
There are no instructions for women's happiness, and if there were, then each woman would have her own. And what makes one person happy may not be part of another at all. There are also ingredients that are the basis of all compositions, but they have been found a long time ago. These are the answers that lie on the surface, and your task is to recognize the deep desires. It is so important for her that you understand, that you hear between the words, read between the lines about what it is... HER happiness.
Be moderate in happiness, reasonable in misfortune.
Periander
Saturation gives rise to insolence when a bad person experiences good fortune and when this person does not have a sound mind.
Theognis
All people strive only for happiness. It is impossible to turn them away from this desire and it would be dangerous to achieve this. You can make them virtuous only by combining personal benefit with common benefit.
Claude Helvetius
If happiness consisted in bodily pleasures, then we would have to call bulls happy when they find peas to eat.
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Choose a friend for yourself; you cannot be happy alone: happiness is a matter of two.
Pythagoras of Samos
Happiness does not favor the faint-hearted.
Happiness does not help the careless.
Sophocles
It is wrong to conclude that fate made a person happy until his life ended.
Sophocles
Happy is the one who, with little means, enjoys a good mood; unhappy is the one who, with large means, does not have spiritual joy.
Democritus
By trying for the happiness of others, we find our own.
Plato
Happiness is on the side of the one who is satisfied.
Aristotle
No one has permanent happiness.
Plautus Titus Maccius
No one is happy among fools, and no one among wise men is unhappy.
Cicero Marcus Tullius
I see the essence of a happy life entirely in the strength of the spirit.
Cicero Marcus Tullius
The happiest person is the one who depends only on himself.
Cicero Marcus Tullius
Happy is he who died having lived his life blamelessly.
Cato Marcus Porcius (the Younger, or Utic)
Each is the architect of his own happiness.
Sallust (Gaius Sallust Crispus)
There is no happiness without wormholes.
There is nothing happy in every relationship.
Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus)
Beginnings will bring a difficult life to one, and happiness to another.
Virgil Maro Publius
Happy is not the one who seems like that to someone, but the one who feels like that.
Publilius Syrus
Every good thing makes the one who possesses it happy.
Seneca Annaeus the Elder
Happy is he who boldly takes under his protection what he loves.
Ovid
Do not consider someone happy who depends on happiness.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
Happiness has never placed a person at such a height that he does not need others.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
The happiest is the one who does not need happiness.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
Happiness and moderation do not get along well with each other.
Valery Maxim
If your happiness is in the power of other people, then you will certainly be afraid of people.
Epictetus
An extremely happy time when you can think what you want and say what you think.
Tacitus Publius Cornelius
As long as you are happy, you have friends among people, and you have friends among the gods; the latter willingly listen to your requests. But if misfortune happens to you, they will stop making friends with you; with a change in happiness, everyone immediately becomes hostile towards you.
Lucian
No man is happy until he considers himself happy.
Marcus Aurelius
Happy is he who has the holy of holies in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
Everyone finds their own happiness.
Unknown author
A dishonest person cannot be happy.
Unknown author
No one ever thought their happiness was enough.
Unknown author
Happy is the one whom someone else's misfortune teaches to be careful.
Unknown author
Happy is he who knows how to regret the irrevocable.
Unknown author
Bon voyage and safe return!
Unknown author
The shorter the time, the happier it is.
Unknown author
The happiness that came to you itself brings curses when it leaves.
Saying by an unknown Indian author
He who does not value happiness is approaching unhappiness.
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
There can be no greater happiness than bringing happiness to the unhappy.
Nasir Khosrow
The doors of this monastery: exit and entrance.
What awaits us besides death, fear, adversity?
Happiness? Happy is he who lives even for a moment.
Those who were not born at all are happier.
Omar Khayyam
If you have a nook to live in -
In our vile times - even a piece of bread,
If you are not a servant to anyone, not a master -
You are happy and truly high in spirit.
Omar Khayyam
Why suffer needlessly for the sake of common happiness -
It’s better to give happiness to someone close.
It’s better to tie a friend to yourself with kindness,
How to free humanity from its shackles.
Omar Khayyam
It often happens that a person considers happiness to be far from himself, but it has already come to him with silent steps.
Giovanni Boccaccio
Those who do not seek happiness will find it faster than others; for those who seek happiness forget that the surest way to achieve happiness for themselves is to seek it for others.
Martin Luther
If a person only wanted to be happy, then it would be easy, but everyone wants to be happier than others, and this is almost always very difficult, because we usually consider others happier than they really are.
Michel de Montaigne
Human happiness does not consist at all in dying well, but, in my opinion, in living well.
Michel de Montaigne
Those who do not know how to use happiness when it comes should not complain when it passes.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Whomever serves - wise man, name:
Is love happiness, is love happiness?
William Shakespeare
Happy is the one who, hearing blasphemy against himself, can use it to correct himself.
William Shakespeare
Happiness, even without a helmsman, brings other boats to the pier.
William Shakespeare
There is no complete happiness without an admixture of suffering.
William Shakespeare
To enjoy happiness is the greatest good; to be able to give it to others is even greater.
Francis Bacon
True happiness does not lie in many friends, but in dignity and freedom of choice.
Benjamin Johnson
And happiness is a country house,
inherited from our ancestors,
Where peaceful life is filled with work;
A piece of land where we diligently ourselves
We cultivate in early spring
And we don’t worry about the harvest at night;
A modest home, where in the summer heat
Always a saving shade of coolness
And warms the fireplace flame in winter.
Peace in the soul - there is no sweeter joy:
Bless what fate has given,
And don’t expect any other reward from her.
We are born mortals
At death from birth we are in power...
But you live as if there is no death,
And you will know what happiness is.
Juan Martinez de Jauregui y Hurtado de la Sal
In order to experience true happiness, we must go to a very distant country, far from ourselves...
Thomas Brown
This is how fate sometimes plays with mortals:
Either he lifts them up, or he casts them down into the abyss.
And this is how the world works, that in happiness sometimes
A great disaster has already been concluded.
Pierre Corneille
A wise man is happy, content with little, but for a fool nothing is enough; that's why almost all people are unhappy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We try less to be happy than to appear so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Usually happiness comes to the happy, and unhappiness to the unhappy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a degree of happiness and sorrow that goes beyond our ability to feel.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happy people are incorrigible: fate does not punish them for their sins, and therefore they consider themselves sinless.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We experience happiness and unhappiness in proportion to our selfishness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A person's happiness and misfortune depend as much on his character as on his fate.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest happiness available to man - love - should serve as the source of everything sublime and noble.
Blaise Pascal
All people strive for happiness - there are no exceptions to this rule; Everyone’s methods are different, but the goal is the same... Happiness is the motivating motive for any actions of any person, even one who is planning to hang himself.
Blaise Pascal
Happiness is not a reward for virtue, but virtue itself; It is not because we enjoy happiness that we have curbed our passions, but on the contrary, the enjoyment of happiness makes us capable of curbing them.
Benedict Spinoza
Our happiness does not and should not consist at all in complete satisfaction, in which there would be nothing more to desire and which would contribute to the dullness of our mind, but in the eternal striving for new pleasures and new perfections.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
A big obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness.
Bernard Le Beauvier de Fontenelle
Happiness in its fullest extent is the highest pleasure of which we are capable, and unhappiness is the highest suffering.
John Locke
Man is a short-sighted creature, to say the least, especially when he himself undertakes to claim that he is happy, or believes that he can live by his own mind.
Daniel Defoe
A happy life is measured not by the more or less number of suns we see, not by the more or less number of sighs we make, or the food we eat, but by whether we have lived well, whether we have done our job and left this peace with a smile on your lips.
Anton Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
True happiness by its nature loves solitude; it is the enemy of noise and luxury and is born mainly from self-love.
Joseph Addison
Why tell me that my happiness is nothing more than a dream? Even if it is a dream, let me enjoy it.
Joseph Addison
False happiness makes people callous and proud; this happiness is never communicated to others. True happiness makes them kind and sensitive - this happiness is always shared by others.
Charles Louis Montesquieu
Happiness is just a dream, but grief is real.
Voltaire
Happiness is not hidden in the thicket of the forest, even less can it be found among kings, even a sage does not have it: it is not the lot of our short life. You have to give it up, but at least sometimes you can embrace its semblance.
Voltaire
Happy is the one who considers himself happy.
Henry Fielding
Nothing better proves the existence of happiness arising from temperament than the fact that we all know happy fools, while so many intelligent people are unhappy.
Julien Ofret de La Mettrie
Happiness increases by sharing it with others.
Julien Ofret de La Mettrie
Happiness lies not so much in possession as in the process of mastering the object of our desires.
Claude Adrian Helvetius
People's happiness lies in loving to do what they have to do.
Claude Adrian Helvetius
Happiness is nothing if there is no one to share it with, and very little if it does not cause envy.
Samuel Johnson
The only art of being happy is to realize that your happiness is in your hands.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
If we look for happiness without knowing where it is, we risk losing it...
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The thirst for happiness never dries up in a person’s heart.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The happiest person is the one who gives happiness to the greatest number of people.
Denis Diderot
Others live happily without knowing it.
Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues
Happiness comes to us in different forms and is almost elusive, but I have seen it more often among small children, at home and in village houses than in other places.
Adam Smith
Let's face it: only those who have completely killed some aspects of their soul live happily in the world.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort
With happiness, the situation is like with a watch: the simpler the mechanism, the less often it deteriorates.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort
Happiness is not an easy thing: it is difficult to find within yourself and it is not easy to find outside of yourself.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort
Happiness is like a wife who is too rich and wasteful, who ruins the family to which she brings a rich dowry.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort
If some Linnaeus had ever ranked animals according to their happiness, contentment with their position, then, apparently, some people would have been behind donkeys and hunting dogs.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Learning to imagine clearly enough that no one is completely happy is perhaps the closest path to complete happiness.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Is he happy who is happy alone? Imagine a man who would direct all his nobility to the sole purpose of making him feel good, who would already achieve such that he himself would have nothing left to desire. After all, then his whole soul would be occupied with one feeling, one fear: sooner or later he would be overthrown. Is he happy who has nothing to desire, but only something to fear?
Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin
O human heart, what is your happiness? A mysterious moment that we irretrievably lose as soon as we have time to welcome it.
Nikolaus Lenau
Happy is the one who keeps his heart pure in dark days.
Charles de Coster
A person increases his happiness to the extent that he gives it to others.
Jeremy Bentham
Actions don't always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
The goal of all human endeavor is to achieve happiness. However, happiness cannot be achieved, enjoyed, or secured until all people enjoy good health and acquire genuine knowledge and wealth.
Robert Owen
Misdemeanor, although it may cause temporary well-being, never brings true happiness.
Walter Scott
If I am destined to crawl, I will crawl; if they order me to fly, I will fly; but I won’t be happy for anything.
Sydney Smith
We don't know what will happen tomorrow; our job is to be happy today.
Sydney Smith
We have no duty that we underestimate so much as the duty to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness - at least once - knocks on every door.
William Hazlitt
Happy is the one who has arranged his existence in such a way that it corresponds to the characteristics of his character...
The secret of happiness lies in the ability to step out of the circle of one’s self.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I am becoming more and more convinced that our happiness depends much more on how we meet the events of our lives than on the nature of the events themselves.
Alexander Humboldt
In relation to happiness, no imperative is possible which, in the strictest sense of the word, would prescribe to do what makes one happy...
Immanuel Kant
Experience extols, as the happiest, the one who brought happiness to the greatest number of people...
Karl Marx
Lasting happiness is the lot of an honest person.
Novalis
Where there is no desire for happiness, there is no desire at all. The pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of aspirations.
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Your first responsibility is to make yourself happy. If you yourself are happy, then you will make others happy too. A happy person can only see happy people around him.
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Where there is no difference between happiness and unhappiness, between joy and sorrow, there is no difference between good and evil. Good is an affirmation; evil is the denial of the pursuit of happiness.
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Happiness is a state of passivity. The happier we are, the more passive we are in relation to the objective world. The freer we become, the closer we come to rationality, the less we need happiness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Any limitation makes you happy. The narrower our horizons, sphere of action and contact, the happier we are; the wider it is, the more often we feel torment and anxiety. For with their expansion, our desires, worries and fears multiply and increase.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There is only one innate error - this is the belief that we are born for happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Man searches in vain for the source of happiness outside himself; inside him, in his chest, are heaven and hell and his judge.
Ernst Eckstein
The desire for happiness is innate to man, so it should be the basis of all morality.
Friedrich Engels
…If we do not respect the same desire for happiness in others, they will resist and interfere with our desire for happiness.
Friedrich Engels
By being occupied with oneself, a person only in very rare cases, and by no means with benefit for himself or for others, satisfies his desire for happiness.
Friedrich Engels
...The pursuit of happiness... needs material means most of all...
Friedrich Engels
...Only happiness is the measure and verification of love.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
As long as you are alive, happiness has not died.
Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev-Marlinsky
There is no complete happiness with anxiety; complete happiness is calm, like the sea during summer silence.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
There is no such thing as chronic happiness, just like unmelting ice.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
Happy hours are not observed.
Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov
A Russian person cannot be happy alone, he needs the participation of others, and without this he will not be happy.
Vladimir Ivanovich Dal
Happiness is a matter of fate, mind and character.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
And many find happiness only by walking well on their hind legs.
Ivan Andreevich Krylov
Believe me, happiness is only where they love us, where they believe us.
Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov
...The greatest happiness available to a person is to fall in love with an idea that can be
devote all your strength and your whole life undividedly.
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev
Happiness is won and developed, and not received ready-made from the hands of a benefactor.
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev
The highest happiness obliges the soul.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Happiness is not in happiness, but only in its achievement.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
In the edifice of human happiness, friendship builds the walls, and love forms the dome.
Kozma Prutkov
If you want to be happy, be it.
Kozma Prutkov
Happiness coefficient in inverse content to dignity.
Kozma Prutkov
Happiness is like a ball that rolls up: today under one, tomorrow under another, the day after tomorrow under a third, then under a fourth, fifth, etc., according to the number and line of happy people.
Kozma Prutkov
Happiness is like health: when you don’t notice it, it means it’s there.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Happiness has no tomorrow, it does not have yesterday, it does not remember the past, does not think about the future, it has the present - and that is not a day, but a moment.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Happy is he who visited this world in its fatal moments!
Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev
The right to happiness is the most inalienable human right.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky
Personal happiness is impossible without the happiness of others.
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
The right to live and be happy is an empty ghost for a person who does not have the means to do so.
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
Happiness is created from individual satisfactions of our aspirations and desires; it is like the flowers that we meet and collect absent-mindedly along the path of life. But just as everyone goes his own way, he collects only those flowers that grow on his path. Therefore, everyone has their own happiness.
Nikolai Vasilievich Shelgunov
The time for happiness is now.
Robert Greene Ingersoll
The place for happiness is here.
Robert Greene Ingersoll
The way to be happy is to make others happy.
Robert Greene Ingersoll
Happiness is the only good.
Robert Greene Ingersoll
Most people are only as happy as they consider themselves happy.
Abraham Lincoln
Most people are only as happy as they are made to be.
Abraham Lincoln
True happiness for us is a negative thing: it consists in the absence of disasters.
Pierre Buast
The varied definition of happiness shows that it is unfamiliar to us.
Pierre Buast
To be completely happy, it is not enough to have happiness, you must also deserve it.
Victor Marie Hugo
There are thousands of ways to be happy, and those who cannot obtain salvation for themselves through virtue and science can obtain it through travel, women, active life and drunkenness.
Joseph Ernest Renan
Happiness alone is not complete happiness.
Alexandre Dumas (father)
The desire for joy, happiness, is persistent, ineradicable, it has taken deep roots in our soul.
Guy de Maupassant
A person who devotes himself to the pursuit of complete happiness will be the most unhappy of people.
Anna Louise Germaine
My happiness would be complete if it were not victory, which is the only happiness of a fool.
Stendhal
Almost all misfortunes in life come from a false idea of what happens to us. Consequently, deep knowledge of people and sound judgment about events bring us closer to happiness.
Stendhal
I will not do anything for my personal happiness until I stop suffering from looking bad in someone else's eyes.
Stendhal
Being a fool, being selfish and having good health are the three conditions necessary to be happy. But if the first of them is missing, then the rest are useless.
Gustave Flaubert
There is no more desirable happiness on earth than the happiness of wonderful and long-lasting love.”
Maurice Maeterlinck
What we usually lack is not happiness itself, but the ability to be happy.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Always happy is the one who constantly has something before his eyes that he cannot fully understand, and that, moving forward, he learns more and more...
John Ruskin
When a person is happy, he is always good. But good people are not always happy.
Oscar Wilde
With freedom, flowers, books and the moon - how can you not be completely happy?
Oscar Wilde
If you ever find it while chasing happiness, you will, like the old woman looking for her glasses, discover that happiness was right on your nose all along.
George Bernard Shaw
We do not know how to use happiness if we do not plant it, just as we do not know how to use wealth without earning it.
George Bernard Shaw
And at dawn Zarathustra laughed in his heart and said mockingly: “Happiness is running after me. This is because I don't chase women. And happiness is a woman.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
My brother, if happiness accompanies you, then you have only one virtue, and no more. Then it's easier for you to cross the bridge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every little happiness should be used like a sick person uses his bed: for recovery - and nothing else.
Friedrich Nietzsche
...It’s better to go crazy with happiness than with failure, it’s better to dance awkwardly than to walk with a limp.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is much more happiness in the world than the eyes clouded with sadness see, if you only consider what is true and do not forget those pleasant moments that every day of human life is rich in, no matter how difficult it may be...
Friedrich Nietzsche
A man’s happiness is called “I want.” A woman’s happiness is “He wants.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest and most lasting happiness comes from the highest human activity, which is akin to the divine, that is, the activity of the mind, and to the extent that a person has some divine element in himself, he will carry out such activity.
Erich Fromm
Happiness is not some kind of gift from God, but an achievement that a person achieves through his inner fruitfulness.
Erich Fromm
Bought happiness brings only satisfaction, obtained through effort - joyful excitement, and since joy quickly passes, a desire arises to achieve greater and greater happiness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (Alsion)
Happiness is in change, not in acquisition.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (Alsion)
Happiness is eyes that can become clogged with a speck of dust, and tears will flow from them.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Happiness... is vast and multifaceted; deprived of the opportunity to be happy in one, will find his happiness in another.
Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev
We see little, we know little, And happiness is given only to those who know.
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin
The unhappy have a truer and more accurate idea of happiness.
Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov
Happiness is in the anticipation of happiness.
Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov
When nature deprived man of his ability to walk on all fours, she gave him, in the form of a staff, an ideal! And from then on, he unconsciously, instinctively strives for the best - ever higher! Make this striving conscious, teach people to understand that only in a conscious striving for the best is true happiness.
Maksim Gorky
Happiness begins with hatred of misfortune, with physiological disdain for everything that distorts and disfigures a person, with internal organic repulsion from everything that aches, groans, and sighs.
Maksim Gorky
Happiness with a woman is possible only under the condition of complete sincerity of spiritual communication.
Maksim Gorky
Do you want happiness for yourself... Well, it won’t come soon... You have to look for it, like a mushroom in the forest, you have to break your back over it - and even having found it, look - isn’t it a toadstool?
Maksim Gorky
Happiness is not a life without worries and sorrows, happiness is a state of mind.
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
In study, in work, in science, in selfless service to the people you will find your happiness.
Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky
Someone with a hammer should stand behind the door of a happy person, constantly knock and remind him that there are unhappy people and that after a short period of happiness, misfortune comes.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
What a great happiness it is to love and be loved.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Happy is he who can love his wife as a mistress, and unhappy is he who allows his mistress to love him as a husband.
Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky
He is too smart to be happy and too unhappy to be evil.
Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky
The general law of life is the pursuit of happiness and its increasingly widespread implementation.
Man is created for happiness, like a bird is created for flight.
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko
A person’s exceptional happiness is to be engaged in his constant favorite activity.
Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko
Yes, of course, happiness is necessary, but what kind? There is happiness - chance - God bless it. I would like happiness to come as a merit.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
You cannot set happiness as your goal: personal happiness as a goal is impossible on earth. Happiness is given completely freely to those who set some goal and achieve it after a lot of work.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
The happiness of an individual outside of society is impossible, just as the life of a plant pulled out of the ground and thrown onto barren sand is impossible.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy
There is only one undoubted happiness in life - to live for another.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The need for happiness is embedded in a person; therefore, it is legal.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Both what we call happiness and what we call unhappiness are equally useful to us if we look at both as a test.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
There are two desires, the fulfillment of which can constitute a person's true happiness - to be useful and to have a clear conscience.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
There are two kinds of happiness: the happiness of virtuous people and the happiness of vain people. The first comes from virtue, the second from fate.
Happiness based on vanity is destroyed by it: fame - by slander, wealth - by deception. Happiness based on virtue is nothing.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
You have to believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
One of the first and universally recognized conditions of happiness is a life in which the connection between man and nature is not broken, that is, life in the open air, in the light of the sun, in the fresh air; communication with the earth, plants, animals.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Happy is he who is happy at home.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Happiness is pleasure without remorse.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Happiness does not lie in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The wickedest man's face lights up when he is told that he is loved. Therefore, this is happiness.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The goal of life must be happiness, otherwise the fire will not burn brightly enough, the driving force will not be strong enough - and success will not be complete.
Theodore Dreiser
Once in a lifetime, happiness knocks on everyone's door, but often this person sits in the next tavern and does not hear the knock.
Mark Twain
A person is busy with what he expects happiness from, but his greatest happiness is that he is busy.
Alain
If happiness smiles on people consumed by deep melancholy, they do not know how to hide it: they attack happiness, as if they want to squeeze it in their arms and strangle it out of jealousy.”
Albert Camus
We don't have enough time to be ourselves. We only have enough time to be happy.
Albert Camus
Happy is the one who knows how to sing with a pure and open soul... You need to be able to find joy in everything: in the sky, in the trees, in the flowers. Flowers bloom everywhere for everyone who wants to see them.
Henri Matisse
Our happiness is only the silence of misfortune.
Jules Renard
It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary to live happily.
Jules Renard
When we understand our role on earth, even the most modest and inconspicuous, then only we will be happy.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no happy life, there are only happy days.
Andre Terje
Happiness strives to be “legitimate.”
Max Weber
Happy, thrice happy is the man who is strengthened by adversity.
Jean Henri Fabre
Our happiness is always in flight. He has no nest, only wings.
Paul Eluard
But even the dead we will live in a particle of our great happiness; after all, we have invested our lives in it.
Julius Fucik
A person cannot just take it and become happy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Abstraction is the opposite of happiness.
Emmanuel Mounier
The desire to be happy means the following: suffering and the desire to avoid it.
Georges Bataille
Happiness is always saying “Yes”, endlessly affirming.
Maurice Blanchot
If you want to be happy, don’t rummage through your memory.
Emil Michel Cioran
