Leo Tolstoy

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.

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.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

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

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

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

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

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

To fill the hour – that is happiness.

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

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

Be happy; without reason.

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

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.

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.

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

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

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.