"My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable."

"Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic."

"Nijedna tuđa sreća nije bez pomalo sreće i za nas druge. Zato je jedna velika mudrost od tuđe sreće praviti sreću i za sebe."

"...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all."

"Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation."

"But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach."

"The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings. The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way."

"There is no greater misery than false joys."

"What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed."

"Many people see happiness only in their future."

"The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!"

"-Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard?When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying."

"[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives."

"This planet is a "Hell" and there is no "Heaven" up there. So, learn to be "Happy in Hell"."

"Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you."

"The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there."

"It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station; whether it be that apparent superiority incites great designs, and great designs are naturally liable to fatal miscarriages; or that the general lot of mankind is misery, and the misfortunes of those whose eminence drew upon them an universal attention, have been more carefully recorded, because they were more generally observed, and have in reality only been more conspicuous than others, not more frequent, or more severe."

"Kurzes Glück kann jeder."

"A sense of peace came over me and I must have been smiling as I fell asleep."

"It's always something here - if there isn't a riot, then someone's usually trying to escape. The wasted effort helps me see the positives of imprisonment. Unlike those pulling their hair out in good society, here we don't have to feel ashamed of our day-to-day unhappiness. Here we have someone visible to blame - someone wearing shiny boots. That's why, on consideration, freedom leaves me cold. Because out there in the real world, freedom means you have to admit authorship, even when your story turns out to be a real stinker."

"Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so."

"May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference"