Sylvia Plath Quotes

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

I don't know if I will ever be satisfied but I will keep going until hopefully I am.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

To be happy - that's all that matters.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.

Be deeply satisfied and ready for more.

People are never free of trying to be content.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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.

Most people achieve their goals and are like, "Is this all there is?" We are supposed to keep growing so we have something to get. What we get never makes us happy. You play yourself when you forget that.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

I've accomplished more than I ever dreamed. But I'm hungry for more.

I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.