“We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.”– Mary Gordon Related Quotes “Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.”— Kiran Nagarkar “Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”— Thomas Jefferson “Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together.”— Stephen Richards