If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it. (12)

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

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

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

We trouble ourselves less to become happy, than to make others believe we are so.

In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Happiness comes from seeing ourselves as being okay, just as we are, today, without comparison to others, without reference to the way we were or the way we fear we will be.

It's like a rule of life that yer automatically happier when you don't gotta worry about something.

What fun would it be if one didn't have to think about happiness

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied.

If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.