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Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

I don't focus on happiness as a goal or an end.

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.