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Happiness Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

76 Happiness quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness. Tolstoy’s lines suggest that simple pleasures, love in marriage, and belief in the possibility of joy make life bright. He also notes that each unhappy family has its own pattern, contrasting with the uniform happiness of families.

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If you want to be happy, be happy.

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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

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The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

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If you want to be happy, just be.

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The one who is happy, that's the one who is right.

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Each time of life has its own kind of love.

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“All families are happy, all families are alike.”

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

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“You are in despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness.”

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People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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“The only certain happiness in life is to live for others.”

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There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

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Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

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“So you make a sacrifice!' he threw special emphasis on the last word. 'Well, so do I. What could be better? We…

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“happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity”

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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind…Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers…

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“Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes…

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Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you…

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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside…

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“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free,…

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“wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to…

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“I'm inexcusably happy. Something magical has happened to me, like a dream, when you're frightened, panic-stricken, and all of a sudden you…

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“No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, you're going to be the same…

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“And I, too, am the same… only there is no love in my heart, or desire for love, no interest in work,…

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“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain…

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“...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be…

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“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires;…

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Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what…

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He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected.…

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“Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be...Rare indeed were the brief periods of peace...hard though it was for the mother…

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“In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is…

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“Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected to be. At…

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“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt…

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The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the…

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“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires;…

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“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be…

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“One might murder and steal and yet be happy”

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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

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“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at…

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command…

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,…

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.