“Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.”

“I'd rather take a major financial hit being honest than get rich by lying.”

Dave Sim (1956) Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

“You can't have a happy life and an unhappy relationship - it's a contradiction.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“If you wanna play it like a game,
well, come one, come on, let's play.
Cause I'd rather waste my life pretending;
than have to forget you
for one whole minute …”

Hayley Williams (1988) American singer-songwriter and musician

“When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“If you were capable of thinking of an object from more than one point of view, you could imagine it doing all sorts of things. For Mother, consciousness was becoming more than just a tool for lying.”

Stephen Baxter book Evolution