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

“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”

“Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.”

“Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”

“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”

“At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that’s a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.”

“I'm really happy, I just don't choose to show it.”

“The future that we will never experience is constantly haunting us in the present moment. Thus, taking away our true happiness.”

“it is a most important social act; nay, at bottom, the one important social act. Given the men a People choose, the People itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given. A heroic people chooses heroes, and is happy; a valet or flunkey people chooses sham-heroes, what are called quacks, thinking them heroes, and is not happy.”

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)”