The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.

He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.