Hector and the Search for Happiness * Quotes

"1. Making comparisons can spoil your happiness
2. A lot of people think happiness means being richer or more important.
3. Many people only see happiness in their future.
4. Happiness could be the freedom to love more than one woman at the same time
5. Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story
6. Avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness
7. Does this person bring you predominantly a) up or b) down
8. Happiness is answering your calling
9. Happiness is being loved for who you are
10. Sweet potato stew!
11. Fear is an impediment to happiness
12. Happiness is feeling completly alive
13. Hapiness is knowing how to celebrate
14. Listening is loving
15. Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
16. We all have an obligation to be happy."

"You cannot touch happiness."

"Or is it right here, in my smile?"

Hector: "So, what are you studying, Ying Li?"
Ying Li: "Tourism"
Hector: "I'm a tourist"
Ying Li: "What a coincidence!"

"They are like a happy little Island in a sea of grim business."

"The moment of death is indeed unsudden."

"More important than what we are searching for is what we are avoiding."