Happiness Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Her motherly instinct told her that there was too much of something in Natasha, and that it would prevent her from being happy.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still... Natasha…

— Leo Tolstoy

“She, who knows what happiness is, brings joy, peace and happiness!”

— Petra Hermans

“This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.”

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“All articulate thought had long ago deserted her; her heart seemed to have grown to the size of a sun, and to illuminate her…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was sometimes happy, in the sense of being somehow complete, and ready for what another day might bring. And knows she is no…

— William Gibson

“Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.”

— David Maine

“She was happier than I'd ever seen her, and for the first time, I felt like a normal, whole human being instead of some…

— Jamie McGuire

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“She and I are two unhappy ones who keep together and carry our burdens together, and in this way unhappiness is changed to joy,…

— Vincent van Gogh

“She'd always perceived the world to be against her. Happiness was never to be trusted. And yet I thought vaguely, neither was sorrow. Didn't…

— Regina O'Melveny