“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”

“We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.”

“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful but gratitude that makes us happy.”

“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.”

“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”

“Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways”