“If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.”

“The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning—the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life—a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.”

“Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.”

“Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.”

“We are young, but We already know that in life’s great game those who are most unhappy are those who haven’t taken the risk to be happy. And I don’t want to be one of those”

“Happiness must be grown in one’s own garden. ”

“A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.”

“Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is.”

“Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)”

“May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory”

“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.”

“You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.”

“A woman laughing is a woman conquered.”

“Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison.”

“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”