Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.

Happiness may be something like gold dust sinking to the bottom of a river of sorrow, faintly glimmering.

Mine has been a life of much shame.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

-- George Orwell

Know your own happiness.

-- Jane Austen

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

-- Alexandre Dumas

There is no medicine that cures what happiness cannot.

-- Gabriel García Márquez

Habit is given to us from above: it is a substitute for happiness.

-- Alexander Pushkin