“ We're brought up to expect a happy ending. But there are no happy endings. There's only death waiting for us. We find love and happiness, and it's snatched away from us without rhyme or reason. We're… Sidney Sheldon
“ The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable. Albert Camus
“ That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria! Bill Watterson
“ Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same thing as being happy - which I think is fleeting, dependent on circumstances, and a bit bovine...The pursuit of happiness is more el… Jeanette Winterson
“ Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. Leo Tolstoy
“ People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t Stephen Fry
“ It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that if you have something you love or there's something you want, you'll be happier with more. Gretchen Rubin
“ If I had a camera, I said, I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life. I look exactly the same. No, you don't. You're changing all the time… Nicole Krauss
“ I'd learned more about her in that exhausted, murmuring hour than in all the many months before it. Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars we use to navigate the oce… Gregory David Roberts
“ I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy. Sylvia Plath
“ He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree. Leo Tolstoy
“ For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain? Joyce Carol Oates
“ Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear… Victor Hugo
“ And they did what lovers often do when they think the future stretches out endless before them as bright as on the noon of creation day: they talked ceaselessly of the past, as if each must be caught… Charles Frazier
“ Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it Elizabeth Kostova
“ To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in strop… Joseph Conrad
“ I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth. Paula Adler
“ Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. Christian Bovee
“ Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it you're still going to be taken along. Bernadette Roberts
