Leo Tolstoy

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

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

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

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 wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

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

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.

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.

If you want to be happy, be.

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to except and what to let go.

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

It’s time for you to claim the happiness that you deserve in your life.

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

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