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
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
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
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
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-Epicurus
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
