How to Be Happy Quotes

“Find the stories that help you comprehend the incomprehensible. Find the stories that make you stronger.”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy

“Write a story
A story about yourself

A story about your life
Now, believe it

Now write another story, same subject
A better story
More interesting
Stronger characters.
Now, believe that.

Just keep writing
You have plenty of time”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy

“Find the stories that help you comprehend the incomprehensible

Find the stories that make you stronger.”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy

“Darling, I’ve realised I don’t love you.



If I loved anyone, it would be you. But I love no one. 



I’ve come to understand I don’t care about anything except for myself.

Any kindness I’ve ever shown has been in my own self-interest.

The very existence of other people seems doubtful.

I wanted more from life than this.

Let’s have a baby.”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy

“Inside the bone was a tiny man he didn’t recognize. The man was made of thin flesh, wrapped around translucent bones, wrapped around organs no bigger than grains of sand pumping wildly. A small mortal man he’d carried hidden inside his own good, strong body.”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy

“Conflict is not natural. It’s the result of the false agro-industrial system we’re addicted to.”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy

“The fall from Eden is really an allegory for our transition from hunter-gatherers to an agrarian society. Before the fall we lived in a utopia, free of artificial social constructs.”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy