“If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.”

— Etgar Keret , book Missing Kissinger

Source: Missing Kissinger

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Etgar Keret 9

Israeli and polish writer and screenwriter 1967

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1985

“Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.”

Sheryl Crow (1962) American musician and actress

“Happiness is not having what you want but wanting what you have.”

Jimmy Stewart (1908–1997) American film and stage actor

“If you want to learn a culture, you have to learn how to like what it likes, rather than go looking for something that you like.”

John Barnes book Earth Made of Glass

Earth Made of Glass (1998)

“Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Variant: I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
Source: The Sun Also Rises

“The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, "No, I'm happy for you?"”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

That's when it's really sad.
Rolling Stone magazine/iTunes podcast (December 2005)
On the "chin-up sad" tone of one of his new songs on his upcoming album "Continuum"