A Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy
Russian - Writer
September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami

The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

Eckhart Tolle

Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need for a Savior is an allegory - but if we are all descendants of an allegory, where does that leave us? It destroys the foundation of all Christian doctrine-it destroys the foundation of the gospel.

Ken Ham

Remember one thing: the one who brings unhappiness to others in the end becomes unhappy himself, and the one who brings happiness to others in the end reaches to the heights of happiness. That's why I am saying that someone who tries to give happiness develops the center of happiness inside himself, and someone who tries to bring unhappiness to others develops the center of unhappiness inside himself.

Rajneesh

If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?

Ken Ham

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

Coco Chanel

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Jonathan Franzen

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

George MacDonald

We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

Rajneesh

So what is happiness? I am sure this question will be asked through the ages. And I doubt there is one answer for all people. Like heaven and hell, one person's happiness can be another person's unhappiness, which is why I'm not attempting to tell you what to do to find your happiness. I have enough trouble finding and hanging onto my own true happiness.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.

Eckhart Tolle

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

Leo Tolstoy

Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.

Frederick Lenz

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

Eckhart Tolle

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do. When I tell the story of Cinderella, the sprite does not want me to make it into an allegory of the fall of communism. The sprite would be unhappy if I did that.

Philip Pullman

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