“When we are happy, we forget to eat. Then happiness is a primary need, even more important for life than nourishing the body.”

“Existence is more important than happiness; we can’t live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness!”

“We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.”

“[…] we humans, as long as we live, are generally incapable of freeing ourselves from a certain ardent searching and longing, and should not even strive to; that our longing for happiness seems far more beautiful, always far more sensitive, more significant and all in all probably far more desirable than happiness itself, which perhaps need not even exist, since the fervent, gratifying pursuit of happiness and an everlasting, deep desire for it perhaps not only suit perfectly our needs, but satisfy them far better, far more profoundly; that being happy is by no means to be taken casually, unquestioningly as the meaning of the world, the goal and purpose of life, and so on.”

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”

“Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating.”