“If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.”

“What could be worse than another person's happiness? Not that his unhappiness would make us happy, but we need it in order to bear our own.”

“Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.”

“We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.”

“Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.”

“But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness.”