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
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
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
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"
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
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no end to craving. Hence, contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Stay content.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
