“I have given up considering happiness as relevant.”

“We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.”

“At any given moment the choice to be happy is present — we just have to choose to be happy.”

“Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

“I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.”

“I LOVED her! ay, I would have given
A death-bed certainty of heaven
If I had thought it could confer
The least of happiness on her!”

“Suffering is transcended by total surrender
And the mind attains to nirvana.
As one day all must be given up,
Why not dedicate it now to universal happiness?”

“Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.”

“Are you happy here?" I said at last.
He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.”