Quotes About Happiness

Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

Artists that are perfectionists? We find it hard sometimes to be happy a lot.

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.

None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.

If I'm with someone, I want them to be perfectly happy all the time. That, for me, would be the reason you would devote yourself to one person.

I want to travel the world and enjoy things, so if you gave me $50 million and said, 'You can never perform again,' I probably would take it and be fine with it.

They got a great performance from me. I was happy.

Every performer has to decide for themselves whether they feel they can combine family life and their performing life, and they have to establish a division that makes them happy. I never thought it would be a problem and it hasn't been.

As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

To be confident going out and performing, I need to be with my son for as long as possible; then I know I'm happy, and he's happy, and I can go out and put all my energy into performing.

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

I just love food, period.

I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.

I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

In a culture obsessed with happiness, Americans may not be allowing for acceptance that it's OK to sometimes not be perky.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?