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Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.