Quote by Kristen Simmons

“I’m pretty sure all the individuals trying to control other people’s happiness have none in their own lives.”

— Sarah Liss

“All I had to do was find the source of happiness in me and not rely on others to supply it the next time.”

— André Aciman

“What could be worse than another person's happiness? Not that his unhappiness would make us happy, but we need it in order to bear…

— Hansjorg Schertenleib

“Anyone who never met a man he didn't like just isn't trying hard enough.”

— Michael Zadoorian

“I’m not going to let anyone - even my own past self - fuck up my happiness.”

— Ruby Dixon

“It never once occurs to him, though, that the reason he's so unhappy is that he's an asshole.”

— David Foster Wallace

“I've thought myself out of happinessone one million times, but never once into it.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.”

— Bram Stoker

“What they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I couldn't make myself happy, but I could make people around me miserable.”

— John Green

“Maybe happiness didn't have to be about big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together…

— Ann Brashares

“You didn’t identify with happy people, and in your excessiveness you projected onto those who had failed in everything, or succeeded in nothing.”

— Édouard Levé