“If you like her, if she makes you happy and you feel like you know her, don't let her go.”

“Enjoy it. Because it's happening.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell on the past, do not worry about the future, and focus on living fully in the present.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'Wait and hope.'”

“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.”

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. Dreams are forever.”

“People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.”

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room — I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful, awful beyond all, but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me, or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen: 'The strongest men are the most alone.' I've never thought, 'Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good.' No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd: 'Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?' Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”

“Two people in love, alone and isolated from the world. That's beautiful.”

“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”

“Because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair can't-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is 'you like stuff,' which is just not a good insult at all. Like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness.'”

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."”

“Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”

“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”

“I heard what you said. I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold; I have those things already. I want a steady hand, a kind soul. I want to fall asleep and wake knowing my heart is safe. I want to love and be loved.”

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever.”