Quotations on Happiness

گفته های قصار در مورد خوشبختی

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- Bertrand Russell

از نوع های مختلف احتیاط کردن، احتیاط در عشق احتمالا بیشتر از هرچیزی خوشبختی حقیقی را میکشد

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

من نمیدونم ما چرا اینجا هستیم، اما کاملا مطمئنم که برای لذت بردن نیست

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
- Aristotle

خوشبختی معنی و مقصود زندگیست، تمام هدف و قصد موجودیت انسان است

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
- Bertrand Russell
زندگی خوب، اینطور که من میبینم، یک زندگی خوشحالی است - منظورم این نیست که اگر شما خوب هستید شما خوشحال خواهید بود - منظورم اینست که اگر شما خوشحال هستید شما خوب خواهیدبود.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi

خوشحالی آن وقتی است که چیزی که فکر میکنید، چیزی که میگوئید، و چیزی که انجام میدهید در هارمونی هستند.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy

خانواده های خوشحال همه شبیه هم هستند: هر خانواده نا خوشحال ناخوشحال است به نوع خودش.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost

خوشحالی در ارتفاع خودش را جبران میکند برای آن چیزی که در طول کمبود آنرا دارد.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
- Oscar Levant

خوشبختی چیزی نیست که آنرا تجربه کنی: چیزیست که آنرا بیاد میآوری.

“if you want three hours of ecstasy, try gambling. For three weeks of rapture, go traveling. For three months of bliss, get married. Build a new house and you will enjoy three years of heaven. But if you want true and lasting happiness, grow and live with trees.”
- Chinese saying

یک گفته چینی هست که میگوید: "اگر تو سه ساعت احساس وجد و از خود بیخودی بخواهی داشته باشی، قمار را آزمایش کن. برای سه هفته احساس از خود بیخودی و نشئه، به سفر برو. برای سه ماه سعادت و خوشی، ازدواج کن. یک ساختمان جدید بساز و تو از سه سال سعادت بهشتی لذت خواهی برد. ولی اگر تو خوشحالی حقیقی و با دوام بخواهی داشته باشی، کاشت کن و زندگی کن با درخت ها.

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.

خوشحال بودن باین معنی نیست که همه چیز کامل و درست است. باین معنی است که تو تصمیم گرفته ای که ماواء نقائص را ببینی.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy

خانواده های خوشحال همه شبیه هم هستند: هر خانواده ناخوشحال به طریق خودش نا خوشحال است.

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”
- Aristotle

خوشحالی معنی و مقصود زندگی، تمام هدف و پایان وجود انسان است.

“People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel”
- Irwin Federman

مردم اشخاص دیگر را دوست دارند نه برای اینکه آنها کی هستند بلکه برای نوع احساسی است که به آنها میدهند

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
- Gustave Flaubert

احمق بودن، خودخواه بودن، و سلامت سه نیاز برای خوشحالی است، گرچه در صورت غیبت حماقت همه چیز از دست رفته.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer

خوشبختی چیزی نیست به غیر از سلامت و یک حافظه بد.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley

خوشبختی با دنبال کردن هوشیارانه خوشبختی بدست نمیاید: کلا محصول جانبی است از فعالیت های دیگر.

"The great Western disease is, ‘I’ll be happy when...When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job.’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It’s in here. And happiness is not next week. It’s now."
—Marshall Goldsmith

بیماری بزرگ غرب اینست که، "من خوشحال خواهم بود وقتیکه ... وقتیکه من پول دارم. وقتیکه یک
"بی ام و" دارم. وقتیکه این شغل را بگیرم". خب، واقعیت اینکه، شما هیچگاه به "وقتیکه" نمیرسید. تنها راه رسیدن به خوشبختی این شناخت است که خوشبختی جائی نیست. این جاست. و خوشبختی هفته دیگه نیست. الان است.

"Success" is acquiring what is it that you like, and "happiness" is the liking of what you have acquired.
- Anonymous

"موفقیت" بدست آوردن چیزی است که دوست داری و "خوشبختی" دوست داشتن چیزی است که بدست آورده ای

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- Buddha

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton

چارلی چاپلين: خوشبختی فاصله اين بدبختي است تا بدبختي ديگر

The intellectual question of happiness for me was answered in a book about getting rid of clutter!  And I think I will be happier when I've thrown away all the crap I've hoarded over the years.  Magazine, newspapers, mementos, notebooks... things I will never read, items I will never use, or save for a rainy day, items that just take up space.
- Adamino Shalaby

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge
- Bertrand Russell

یک زندگی خوب الهام گرفته از عشق است و راهنمائی میشود با دانش

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
- Bertrand Russell

چیز های اصلی که بنظر من بر مبنای خودشان مهم هستند، و نه صرفا به عنوان یک وسیله به چیز های دیگر، عبارت هستند از دانش، هنر، خوشحالی غریزی، و روابط دوستی و محبت.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies

خوشبختی یک محصول جانبی (فرعی و اتفاقی) است. احتمالا بستگی به خلق و خوی آدم دارد، و تا آنجا که من میدانم ممکن است مربوط به غدد ترشحی باشد. اما چیزی نیست که از زندگی بشود تقاضای آنرا کرد، و اگر شما خوشحال نیستی بهتر است راجع به آن نگران نباشی و ببینی چه گنجینه ای از نوع بخصوص بدبختی خودت میتوانی بچینی

A large income is the best recipe for
happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen

یک درآمد متنابه بهترین دستور تهیه خوشبختی
است که من تا بحال شنیده ام

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
- Bertrand Russell

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”
- Thomas Szasz

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- Bertrand Russell

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
- Leo Rosten

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well-spent life brings a happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Anon

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
Aristotle

...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
Aristotle

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Hobart Brown

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
Jean de La Bruyere

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Robertson Davies

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feather

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

All supposedly 'selfless' acts are entirely selfish. When a man gives to charity, rest assured he values the happiness it brings him more than the money itself. If he did not, he would not give away his money!
James Halloran

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Francis Hutcheson

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley

Actual happiness looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
Aldous Huxley

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.
Washington Irving

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
E.L. Konigsburg

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is increasing--that resistance has been overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but competence. The first principle of our humanism: The weak and the failures shall perish. They ought even to be helped to perish.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Openheim

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Norm Papernick

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John D. Rockefeller

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
Leo Rosten

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
Bertrand Russell

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved...
George Sand

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C. P. Snow

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
Edith Wharton

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

 "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."
- Andrew Carnegie

بهترین خوشبختی ها ، یاری به دیگران است.

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"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."
- Andrew Carnegie