One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
I am so happy in your happiness. To you, happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be free.
-Khalil Gibran
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
