Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy.... If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
More Quotes from Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky:
It is the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet, tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place of the riotous blood of youth. I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays and the soft, tender, gentle memories that come with them, the dear images from the whole of my long, happy lifeand over all the Divine Truth, softening, reconciling, forgiving My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Love animals God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your apppearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you alas, it is true of almost every one of us.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit Of at first I dont succeed, I quit.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Love all Gods creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If you love each thing you will perceive the mystery of God in all and when once you perceive this, you will from that time on grow every day to a fuller understanding of it until you come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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