Quote of Oscar Wilde - When man is happy, he is...

Biography - Oscar Wilde:

Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

Quote

When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.”
Oscar Wilde

Translation

(French, German)

Lorsque l'homme est heureux, il est en harmonie avec lui-même et avec ce qui l'entoure.”
Oscar Wilde

Wenn der Mensch glücklich ist, lebt er im Einklang mit sich und seiner Umgebung.”
Oscar Wilde

Quotes about happiness:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.”
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.”
Jeremy Bentham

happiness

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
Epicurus

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
Jean de La Bruyere

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Quotes about oneself:

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
Katherine Mansfield

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

All about oneself...

Quotes for: harmony:

Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein

Harmony between two individuals is never granted - it has to be conquered indefinitely.”
Simone de Beauvoir

From things that differ comes the most beautiful harmony.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus

harmony

Wisdom is harmony.”
Novalis - Fragments

It is doubtless a fine harmony when doing and saying go together.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

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Oscar Wilde also said...

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Oscar Wilde

tragedy

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
Oscar Wilde

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