Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

You choose to be lucky by believing that any setbacks are just temporary.

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

The so-called "peace" is an interval between wars.

Even when we’re in great distress, joy can still be found in moments we seize and moments we create. Cooking. Dancing. Hiking. Praying. Driving. Singing Billy Joel songs off-key. All of these can provide relief from pain. And when these moments add up, we find that they give us more than happiness; they also give us strength.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Happiness comes from between. It comes from getting the right relationships between yourself and others, yourself and your work, and yourself and something larger than yourself.

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone.

In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.