“I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a "one size fits all" standard for happiness”

“Happy is the man who knows the true from the false, and refuses to accept less.”

“One size does not fit all.”

“That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

“It didn't fit her ideas of who was bad, and who was good, and what was a happy ending, and what wasn't.”

“I do not like the idea of happiness — it is too momentary — I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.”

“Why I do things? Because I get great happiness, and happiness is the thing which makes the love flow, which makes me love. I want to be happy. And that is why I consider myself as one of the most happiest men in the world, because I do these things. I give this Knowledge to people free of charge. And people when they get this Knowledge feel great happiness. That makes me happy, too.”

“Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.”

“One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.”

“Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.”