“The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

“Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a liberty available to anyone.”

“His key insight was that yearning, or wishing things were different than they are, is the root of all suffering, and that letting go of this desire is the secret to happiness.”

“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one”

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

“If money could buy us happiness then some of the richest people on earth would be more than one million times more happier!”

“How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?”

“The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.”

“You're supposed to say, 'All I want is your happiness. I'll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'"

“Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.”