Fyodor Dostoevsky on happiness
“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
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I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky 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 DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Beauty will save the world.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky If there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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