"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"
- Leslie Caron
About this Quote
This quote by Leslie Caron speaks with the idea that in order to really appreciate happiness, one need to experience pain and distress. Without the comparison of these 2 emotions, it would be tough to recognize when one is truly happy. This quote suggests that in order to have a complete variety of feelings, one need to experience both the low and high of life. It is only with this contrast that can truly appreciate the delights of life. This quote motivates us to embrace the discomfort and worry that life brings, as it is only via these experiences that we can absolutely value the joy that life has to supply.
This quote is written / told by Leslie Caron somewhere between July 1, 1931 and today. She was a famous Actress from France, the quote is categorized under the topic Happiness. The author also have 25 other quotes.
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom"
"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization"
