Quotes About Happiness

LEGEND HERE The initial euphoria of being named commander in chief has long since passed for Washington, replaced by the fear that he has made a very big mistake. "I have often thought how much happier I should have been if, instead of accepting a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket on my shoulders and entered the ranks," he has written to a friend.

If you want to be a happy man," he will counsel a friend years from now, "just don't ever cheat on your wife." Ronald Reagan and

either live happily ever after—or murder the president of the United States.

behaving in an almost giddy fashion, some slathering on sunscreen in

The less you want, the happier you'll be.

Nothing has a greater effect on your ability to enjoy experiences—at any age—than your health. In fact, health is actually a lot more valuable than money, because no amount of money can ever make up for very poor health—whereas people in good health but with little money can still have many wonderful experiences.

Research in psychology backs me up: People who spend money on time-saving purchases experience greater life satisfaction, regardless of their income.

Nothing has a greater effect on your ability to enjoy experiences—at any age—than your health.

Joy is a well-made object, equalled only by the joy of making it.

Skibosh ended up writing a memoir and calling it, If You Wanna Have Fun, Go Someplace Else

When the Lakers held Jerry West Night in March 1971, Bill Russell paid his own way to be there and said during the ceremony, "Jerry, I once wrote that success is a journey, and that the greatest honor a man can have is the respect and friendship of his peers. You have that more than any man I know. Jerry, you are, in every sense of the word, truly a champion. If I could have one wish granted, it would be that you would always be happy.

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

Obviously, we all want to feel pleasure. It can't be one of our highest priorities because, simply put, anything worthwhile in life is going to be un-pleasurable at times. Pleasure is the type of thing that if you get the other stuff right, pleasure will happen on its own.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Everyone is worthy of finding love and enjoying escapist fantasies of a life of dancing, romance, and ambition.

Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.

I come from a family where happiness was seen as an 'extra,' a kind of frill to life - nice to have, but certainly not necessary and by no means paramount. Work was king. Suffering meant you were working hard. It made you worthy.