BELINSKY Vissarion

* The ability to be always in a good mood is the most solid foundation of happiness in this sublunar world.

 

CHADAEV Pyotr

* Away with self-love, away with selfishness. They kill happiness. Living for others means living for yourself. Good will, endless love for one’s own kind – that, believe me, is true bliss; there is no other.

 

CHERNYSHEVSKY Nikolai

* There is only one undoubted happiness in life – to live for others.

 

DAL Vladimir

* A Russian person cannot be happy alone, he needs the participation of others, and without this he will not be happy.

 

DOSTOEVSKY Fyodor

* Every lofty and unifying thought and every true feeling that unites all is the greatest happiness in the life of a nation.

 

FONVIZIN Denis

* It is impossible not to love the rules of virtue. They are ways to happiness.

 

GOGOL Nikolai

* Happiness on earth begins only when a person, having forgotten about himself, begins to live for others.

 

GORKY Maxim

* To be in the world of wonderful, deep mysteries of life, to spend the energy of your brain on solving them is the truly human life, this is where the inexhaustible source of happiness and life-giving joy can be found!

* The best pleasure, the highest joy of life is to feel needed and loved by people!

* There is no surer path to happiness than the path of free labour!

* I want to teach people to desire the only happiness – happiness to respect themselves for the purity and greatness of their thoughts and actions.

 

NOVIKOV Nikolai

* A person cannot be happy if his heart is agitated by disorderly desires; if the well-being of a neighbour arouses envy in him; greed makes him solicit someone else’s property, and ambition and hatred deprive him of peace of mind. From this follows the part of education which has as its subject the education of the heart and which educated people call moral education.

* Happiness, clinging to people of a weak spirit, makes them proud and embitters them. But when it is given to men of a great spirit, it surrounds them with even greater radiance, giving them the opportunity to help humanity, which they know how to honour more than anyone else.

 

PAUSTOVSKY Konstantin

* True happiness is primarily the lot of those who know…

 

PISAREV Dmitry

* Only such development can be called true, which leads us to moral perfection and makes us find happiness in the very process of self- perfection.

* The happiness of a thinking person does not consist in playing with cute toys in life, but in bringing as much light and warmth as possible into the existence of all the people around.

 

PRISHVIN Mikhail

*The greatest happiness is not to consider yourself special, but to be like all good people.

* Everyone should be, to some extent, the creator of something new, in this creativity there is his joy of life.

 

SUKHOMLINSKY Vasily

* The highest personal happiness is to fight for something more significant than personal interests.

 

TOLSTOY Lev

* The highest good of a person in this world is unity with his own kind. Proud people, separating themselves from others, deprive themselves of this good.

*In order for life to be not grief, but continuous joy, one must always be kind to everyone, both people and animals.

*The only true happiness in life is to live for others.

*Life is a majestic, indomitable movement towards universal happiness and joy.

 

USHINSKY Konstantin

* The inner, spiritual, life-giving force of labour alone serves as a source of human dignity, and at the same time ethics and happiness.

 

From The Dictionary of Aphorisms of Russian Writers. Compiled by: A. V. Korolkova, A. G. Lomov, A. N. Tikhonov