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
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
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them.
-Jesus Christ
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Steven Kloves
"The movie, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
-Anonymous "Rajuda"
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
-Danny Wallace
"Yes Man"
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
