Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

We must be doing something to be happy.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

I think people really want to be happy.

I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.

If you are trying to be happy and trying to be kind, you've already won.

This might be controversial, but sometimes I think that being happy is a decision. I don't mean that in a way to diminish clinical depression. But on a more day-to-day level.

We all want happiness in our life. I mean, there are so many books on, like, how to be happy and what you need for happiness, and you want that for your kid, too; you want your kid to be happy.

There are so many things in life that make you sad, you have to be happy.

What you feel inside reflects on your face. So be happy and positive all the time.

You just need to be happy, and once you're happy with yourself then you can do more things.

It's a conscious decision, a full-time job, to be happy.

What's important is that people never give up that fight to be happy, because when you do that, that's when things really start to go wrong.

I think that the only pure thing we have in life is to try to be happy.

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it's so cold,' or you can say, 'Oh, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to try out my new sweater.' No one can be consistently positive, but why not make the choice that makes you feel better rather than the one that drags you down?

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.

It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.

I just believe in whatever you're going to do, even if it's work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.