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
What is the definition of joy? When you get an opportunity to do what you really
want to, the feeling that you experience then, is called "Joy".
-Deep Trivedi
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
