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
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
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
-Alexandre Dumas
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
-Adam Smith
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
-William E. "Bill" Vaughan
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
