“Happiness is the absence of self-concern. I have always considered my future and my fate none of my business.”

“Unhappiness is a contagious disease caused by a chronic deficiency of gratitude.”

“I prefer happiness to unhappiness, pleasure to pain. I’m old-fashioned that way.”

“Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.”

“Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.”

“Some people are way less tortured by poverty than some are tormented by wealth.”

“Genuine happiness is not nearly as common as a fake smile.”

“Happiness is merely a consolation for not yet being dead.”

“The moral of the story is that seeking truth, rather than fear of pain or the desire for happiness, is the correct orientation toward inner work, since seeking happiness makes you its prisoner just as surely as does pain.”

“Money isn’t everything. The same is true of the lack of it.”

“The more we veer away from our true nature, the more unhappy we feel. When we align with our better self, we feel happy and content again.”

“One person is happy with an old sweater; another is unhappy with the whole world.”

“Most sane people feel happy way less often than they act happy.”

“Women don’t know anything about happiness or unhappiness.””Perhaps not. What about man?””Men only have unhappiness. They are always fighting fear.”

“The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.”