"I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness."

"when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away."

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels."

"We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step."

"You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are."

"Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important."

"The only horrible thing in the world is ennui."

"...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying."

"...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life."

"Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart."

"It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book. The dinner is by now forgotten; Lessing has been long overshadowed by other writers. What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around a pond as mosquitoes droned in the darkening air. There is still that singular perfection, and its perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then. There has been no other."

"You can be right or you can be happy."

"Happiness must be grown in one's own garden."

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy."

"JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide."

"Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go."

"Happiness comes from righteous living and the development of a noble character. You can observe this by noticing that people who are truly happy are honest, unselfish, kind, responsible and have a high moral standards. On the other hand, unhappy people are invariably selfish, lazy, irresponsible and lacking of self discipline. And people who are miserable tend to be immoral, dishonest, greedy, cruel, or in other ways dark in character."

"Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho."

"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."

"Happiness is the best revenge"

"Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world."

"Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day."