Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Happiness comes from seeing ourselves as being okay, just as we are, today, without comparison to others, without reference to the way we were or the way we fear we will be.

My philosophy, if you can call it that, is that I am happy because there is no sufficient reason why I should be unhappy.

I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

I'm happy...I laugh as much as I can and cry when I have to, without apology. I think that’s happy.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.

Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness , dear, my happiness will remain,in the moist reflection of a street lamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal's black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness.

You never even worried with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

happiness is where you start, not where you finish.

It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not.

Be happy without picking flaws.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.