Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
Quotations
Happiness
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
