Leo Tolstoy

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly (Anna Karenina)

I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Everything depends on upbringing.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

If you are not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, and are not enthusiastic about doing that, you will not be successful.

The secret of happiness? Live life in the slow lane.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.

To fill the hour – that is happiness.

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

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.