Happiness Quotes

I now understand how important it is to stay in the moment and not worry about all the things that could go wrong. At this point in my life, if something is making me happy, I don’t want to chip away at it thinking, “Oh, this is going to end,” because that feels ungrateful.

If I sit around and think about things, it’ll be hard times. It’ll be me suffering. I don’t want to suffer. I want to be engaged in life.

Every morning I wake up and think good, another 24 hours’ pipe-smoking.

Once you throw your arms up and surrender, a lot of times things come your way.

I think of my happy place as I transition into sleep. I think that’s the case for everyone – that place you think of as you drift off, that place of comfort, is where you find yourself to be happiest. For me it’s always the same place. There’s a beach, which I can’t remember the […]

My house has a revolving door. Even when I’m not home, I love having my friends over and knowing that they’re hanging out by the pool and enjoying it. I always say that my household supports all forms of expression and creativity. It makes me very happy to have a home that’s a safe space […]

I should like to call you by all the endearing epithets, and yet I can find no lovelier word than the simple word “dear,” but there is a particular way of saying it. My dear one, then, I have wept for joy to think that you are mine, and often wonder if 1 deserve you.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering “it will be happier.”

I don’t believe in icons. I don’t believe in personalities. I believe that peace lies beyond personality, beyond invention and disguise, beyond the red S that you wear on your chest that makes bullets bounce off.

The ultimate relationship, I think, as corny as it may sound, is with God and yourself. I’m happiest when I meditate, because you can be anywhere in the world and be anyone and anything and it’s totally unconditional.