A wise person never wants to change his earthly life, because he’s always happy with the life he’s living.
—Leo Tolstoy
You thrash about, suffer and search for happiness everywhere, but it’s within you. It’s not in people’s love for you, as it appears at first, but in your love for them.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
—Ernest Hemingway
In order to be happy, you must always think of others, especially when you’re speaking to someone.
—Leo Tolstoy
Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
—Aldous Huxley
We don’t and can’t know what happiness for all people consists of, but we know full well that gaining this common happiness is possible only through the eternal law of kindness, revealed through human wisdom and residing in the hearts of all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
—Oscar Wilde
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The surest road to our own happiness is to seek the good of others.”
History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
—Georg Hegel
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
—Henry Ford
This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
—Oscar Wilde
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Accept everything bad that happens to you the way a sick person takes medicine. Medicines are bitter & distasteful, but a sick person takes it happily & is glad it exists. In the same way, be glad when trials & afflictions are sent to you, knowing that they’re of use to your soul
—Leo Tolstoy
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
—Marcus Aurelius
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
—Thomas Jefferson
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
—Charles Dickens
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
—George Washington
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
—Charles Dickens