“I’m going to find a way to be happy, and I’d really love to be happy with you, but if I can’t be happy with you, then I’ll find a way to be happy without you.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“Deep in her heart, she wasn’t sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed…normal.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I kissed her until there was more happiness inside me than sadness.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”— Robert A. Heinlein, amazon.com
“They were in love, happy, content; but why was it so painful being in love, why was there so much pain in happiness?”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out — you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“I don’t care what you do to me, but I don’t want you to hurt me. I’ve had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Start ignoring people who threaten your joy. literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don’t invite any parts of them into your space.”— Alex Elle, goodreads.com
“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”— Rita Mae Brown, amazon.com
“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can’t change.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“You don’t ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It’s all about survival; it’s all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in…”— Nick Hornby, amazon.com
“Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com