“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”
More from Leo Tolstoy on Happiness
“Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.”
“I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.”
“Happiness is pleasure without regret”
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.”
Others on Happiness
Dalai Lama
12 quotes“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Jane Austen
10 quotes“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
Anne Frank
8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Alexandre Dumas
6 quotes“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
5 quotes“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
Bertrand Russell
5 quotes“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”
George Santayana
5 quotes“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in...”
Albert Camus
5 quotes“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking...”
John Stuart Mill
5 quotes“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5 quotes“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight...”
André Gide
5 quotes“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”