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 when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
