All Quotes By Tag: Happiness

“Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it’s there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun.”

“Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.”

“You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!”

“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”

“Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings with as much love as you treated your dog or your cat or your child, you’d feel as if you were living in heaven every day of your sweet life.”

“To answer your question as honestly as I can, I’ve wanted since I was very little to not have to worry about money. I’ve never been poverty-level poor (I mean, there’s been years where I’ve been officially beneath the poverty line, but that wasn’t poverty: that was being a student and living the Student Lifestyle), but I’ve been in a place where you know you can’t afford a better-quality food, where you can’t do certain things because of money, and I’d prefer not to have those problems if I can. I sort of have troubles with money in general, with how it determines so much of our lives but with how we all try to ignore it, but I would like to be (and stay) in a place where I can pick up some new comics and games and not worry about how much they cost.This is terrible; you’re asking me where I want to be in the future, what I want my life to be like, and the only thing I can tell you is “Man, all I know is I don’t want to be POOR.”

“When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.”

“It’s not my job to make you happy. It’s your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.”

“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”

“Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.”

“He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes – and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission.”

“I wish I had never been born,” she said. “What are we born for?” “For infinite happiness,” said the Spirit. “You can step out into it at any moment…”

“The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.”

“It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.”

“Achievements can bring you satisfaction but not happiness.”