Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.

Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goals themselves.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich.

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

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its greatest extent.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

I think happiness is love.

I’m always smiling and happy.

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.

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.