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.
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"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Khalil Gibran
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
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"
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
-André Gide
"L'immoralist"
