“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

“Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.”

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

“Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.”

“All who joy would winMust share it — Happiness was born a twin.”

“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”

“those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”

“I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”