“Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”

“There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?”

“Happiness simply is someone who truly remains beside you whether you succeed or fail.”

“No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday (the 22); — and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content.”

“Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.”

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

“Happiness has to exist in the mind before it can exist in life.”

“Friendship only exist during happy times. There lies a betrayal line beyond those happy moments.”

“There is only one inborn erroneous notion … that we exist in order to be happy … So long as we persist in this inborn error … the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence … hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of … disappointment.”

“Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.”