“He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest 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.”

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

“Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And if any is unhappy, remember that he is so for himself; for God made all men to enjoy felicity and peace.”

“Someone with an animal qarakter won't be replaced, on cost of the others he live and make himself happy.”

“In Nekhludoff, as in all people, there were two beings; one spiritual, who sought only such happiness for himself as also benefited others; and the animal being, seeking his own happiness for the sake of which he is willing to sacrifice that of the world.”

“Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.”

“Perhaps we can win, he thought. But there will be no happy ending”

“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”