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
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
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"
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
