“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling that you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.”

“Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or ver...”

“..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.”

“[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.”