"Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them."

"As I watch him, a sudden recognition comes over me: Tonight, I can be anyone I want… maybe being happy only means living in the moment, appreciating the exact moment you're in and not thinking about the worries of the future."

"It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own."

"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam."

"Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life."

"We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves."

"Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement."

"I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it."

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life."

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."

"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"

"There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments."

"I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy."

"This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other."

"She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy."

"The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased."

"In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

"Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom"

"And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order to gain the depth."

"Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole."

"Happiness is a nothingness without completeness."

"We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world."