Henri Matisse Quotes

I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

Now, I'm not 100% there, but every day I wake up, I'm happy being me, and I just feel fulfilled.

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.

The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.

With every passing year, I feel more fulfilled.

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

A more happy mind leads to quietness and clarity. And that clarity helps you have a greater capacity to do more and to become more successful and more giving.

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

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 includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.