The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena