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 is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-George Bernard Shaw
The only satisfactory definition of happiness is wholeness.
-Helen Keller
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
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"
