Quotes About Experience

There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.

I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

Joy came always after pain.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning

Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

The days that make us happy make us wise

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.