“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”

“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”

““There’s something else, Mr. Muzzlehatch.”
“I’m sure there is. In fact there is everything else.””

“A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”

“But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.”

“Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?”

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

“I don’t want expensive gifts; I don’t want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.”

“Everything that I carry tied up in me, can be found anywhere else, freed.”

“Even if victory were possible, it still couldn’t provide meaning or genuine happiness, because saying “I want to be the best” is simply the polite way of saying “I want everyone else to be worse.””