“There is no light without shadows, just as there is no happiness without pain.” 

“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.” 

“Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....” 

“What can we do with this happiness that appears for no obvious reason, the joy that needs no cause to exist?” 

“Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they’ve got handles, they’re rough and hard” 

“We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.” 

“Happiness is pure kitsch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.” 

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.” 

“However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.”

“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.”

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”

 “Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.”

“Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.”

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing

“Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.”

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Someone else is happy with less than what you have.

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

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.