Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them

The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

If you want to be happy, be.

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.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.