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
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Happiness is a late discovery.
-Fadi Dabour
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
-Andy Rooney
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus
