The Answer Is No

by Fredrik Backman

Because people aren’t supposed to be happy, they’re only supposed to want to be happy, because how otherwise are you supposed to be able to sell things to them?

have you tried being really content with your life and not immediately thinking:

Because a funny thing about rule-loving people is that to them it seems more important to impose punishment than it is to actually solve problems, and a funny thing about rule-breaking people is that they seem to find

breaking rules a lot easier to do if someone else has broken them first.

the truth about problems is that the problem itself is never actually the problem. It’s always the people involved who are the problem.

But I think most people who want to be happy try to add things to their lives. But really what maybe they should be doing is taking something away.”

Do not collect junk in your hearts. You can make yourself happy if you don’t let others make you unhappy.

Don’t look on the internet for someone who is exactly like you. Look for someone who isn’t. Love is not to never fight. Love is always making up.

Lucas is happy. It’s not as hard as one might think to become, the hard part is just to keep being it. It’s hard because it’s so easy to get in your head that if you are to be happy, you have to be happy exactly all of the time.

If you ask people what they think, they start thinking, and that’s how wars start.