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
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
-George Santayana "George Santayana"
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
