“Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”

“Is anyone anywhere happy?”

“People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you’re fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.”

“There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.”

“Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.”

“Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”

“I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes”

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

“Memory is the happiness of being alone.”

“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy — one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”

“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”

“Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections”

“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?”