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

“If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.”

“Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.”
Natura beatis,<br/>omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti.

“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”

“Happiness is not about getting what we want from the universe, but about how we can gratefully accept what the universe has given us.”

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.”

“And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.”

“Our life is determined for us — and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us to do.”

“We used to dream about this stuff. Now we get to build it. It's pretty great.”