"Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self."

"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness."

"Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time."

"Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else."

"I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that."

"I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness."

"It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too."

"In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take."

"I am definitely as happy as I've ever been. Happier, I would say, than I've ever been."

"Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result."

"The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life."

"I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens."

"Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep."

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

"Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man."

"He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected."

"Prudence keeps life safe, but it does not often make it happy."

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."

"Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it."

"Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use."

"It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art."

"That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem."

"The great source of pleasure is variety"

"A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market."