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I never could be good when I was not happy.

I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

I was never happy, and neither were many of my friends. We were just normal kids that were not so excellent at what society wanted from us at that time.

I'm never entirely happy. That's just part of my personality, and I just have to accept that.

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.