We are never as unhappy as we think, nor as happy has we had hoped

Most people are always doubtful as to whether they are happy or not, cheerful or not. This is the normal state of happiness, as doubt is a most natural thing.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins — of happiness and unhappiness.

Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us — there is no life.

... but whether someone was married or not was no measure of their happiness

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want.

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.