All Quotes By Tag: Happiness

“Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.”

“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”

“Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don’t matter, and fight.”

“You didn’t just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn’t just break my heart; you broke our future.”

“You know, people ask me. They say ‘Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?’ but they don’t understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.”

“Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can’t help but bless them for a good future. Because I can’t tell that child, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t have come into this life.’ And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.”

“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”

“Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June.”

“When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.”

“A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you’re not living in alignment; you’re not be being true to yourself.”

“For what it’s worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I’ve learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.”

“If you are not the hero of your own story, then you’re missing the whole point of your humanity.”

“I’m going to enjoy every second, and I’m going to know I’m enjoying it while I’m enjoying it. Most people don’t live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn’t make any difference whether they’ve reached the goal or not.”

“Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don’t give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I’m going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they’re busy doing that, they’re like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that’s the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don’t know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?”

“Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.”