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"
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
What is the definition of happiness? The feeling that arises when you are acting
according to your nature, is called "Happiness".
-Deep Trivedi
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"
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"