Vernon Howard Quotes

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

I don't know how to be happy - They didn't teach it in my school

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.

My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

Happiness is a hardy annual.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

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

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.