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Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)
- Hope
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.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Book IV, Ch. 11
- Love
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878), Pt. I, ch. 1
- Family
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1878), Part One, Chapter 1In context
- Family
It showed him the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization of their desires.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1878), Part Five, Chapter 8In context
There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundless
And the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Martin Farquhar Tupper1810–1889Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849), Of Compensation.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain1835–1910Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 48, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
Mark Twain1835–1910
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike1932–2009“How to Love America and Leave it at the Same Time,” Problems and Other Stories (1979)
- America
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Jules Verne1828–1905Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Love
Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 207 (tr. Fairclough); spoken by Aeneas.
- Hope
Human beings will be happier — not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie — but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Playboy interview (1973)
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007“Knowing What’s Nice”, an essay from In These Times (2003)
- Advice