P. D. James Quotes

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

If I have the perfect meal and I'm with the person I love most - what more can you want out of life?

Your dreams should never be better than your real life

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

I find more and more, as time goes on, these people I meet, they are starting to become these people I look up to more and more. Like Julianne Moore, also, on Crazy Stupid Love: kids, husband, priorities straight. Or Woody Harrelson's like that. Those are the people I really admire, and that's success to me: being able to balance that life and not buy into it. And do the work that you want to do and makes you happy, because you're lucky enough to do it. But if I never got a role again, I've got this incredible life.

Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

I don''t wanna be rich, just live good.

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.

There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.

Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.