“if you feel happy, Smile with all your heart. if you’re down, smile with all your might.”

“Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured – this is the truth of the whole matter.”

“Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.”

“To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy.”

“Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you’ll feel is regret.”

“It’s about the quality of the worry,” I said. “I have happier worries now than I used to.”

“His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.”

“Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it’s there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun.”

“It’s not my job to make you happy. It’s your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.”

“Happy are those who evolve from within.”

“It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.”

“so many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.”

“When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, “I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!”

“Those who wish to sing always find a song.”

“Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.”