Shel Silverstein Quotes

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

I can't imagine a more ideal life.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Simplicity makes me happy.

I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.