..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling that you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.
