“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.”

“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.”

“Happy are those who evolve from within.”

“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.”

“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”

“Happiness doesn’t have to be chased…it merely has to be chosen.”

“People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been–for a moment’s relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.”

“Who’s happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they can’t find anything to bitch about.”

“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.”

“You don’t have to be happy to smile.”