"An empty bus hurtles through the starry nightPerhaps the driver is singingand happy because he sings."

"You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does"

"Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap."

"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."

"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives."

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise"

"I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner."

"To fill the hour──that is happiness."

"The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea."

"There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time."

"Whoever said happiness needs a plan?"

"But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to."

"Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive"

"When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day."

"Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it."

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."

"Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before."

"My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones."

"Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none."

"Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf."

"And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness."

"Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery."