The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.

In a materialistic society, being poor but happy is a political statement.

Happiness is merely a consolation for not yet being dead.

Some people are chronically unhappy only because they do not have some of the things some people expect them to want.

Most people have given back to life the power to make themselves happy.

Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.

It is impossible for your reasons to be unhappy to exceed those to be happy.

Some of the people who we envy for having something we lack envy us for lacking something they have.

Because our minds are problem-solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable.