Leo Tolstoy

I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there’s no altering that.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Choose happiness, not success, as your life’s goal. If you become successful but aren’t happy, then what is the point?

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless allows us to seek happiness in the place it can be found: Our real, messy, imperfect experience

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Money itself won’t bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills easier.

I think happiness is love.

I have to plan my happiness. That’s the thing, we think happiness just happens and it can, but you’ve got to work in some happiness too.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Don’t worry, be happy!

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

If happiness is what you’re after, you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though, joy is the feeling that we have doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.