The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
-Bertrand Russell
Quotations
Happiness
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"
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
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"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
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"
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
-Melisa De La Cruz
"The Van Alen Legacy"
