Leo Tolstoy

Everything intelligent is so boring.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

The Kingdom of God is Within You,

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

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

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

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I’m always smiling and happy.

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.

To fill the hour – that is 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.

Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

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

How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be happy”? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don’t think so. I’ll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you’re willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

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