Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.

I kind of got out of the spotlight and life's never been this good.

I've kind of lived the same lifestyle I've had since I was a little kid. Basically, working out and hanging out with my friends and competing. I feel like a really lucky guy. I haven't had to do anything I don't want to do in life, and that's not the case with everyone.

This is my life: it's an easy life. It's not complicated.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.

The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which are much more sought after. They suggested how few circumstances are necessary to the well-being and serenity of man, how indifferent all employments are, and that any may seem noble and poetic to the eyes of men, if pursued with sufficient buoyancy and freedom.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any moment on the earth--who do not 'look before and after, and pine for what is not,' but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

You have to have the fire in your belly. I'm having more fun now with acting than I did when I first started out, because I'm doing it just because I really enjoy it. I'm not trying to "make it" anymore. I'm not trying to be anything, you know? The biggest this and that for anybody. I'm just enjoying it.

Happiness is found when no one is looking

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.