Paulo Coelho Quotes

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free.

I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.

I'm living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.

I'm having a lot of fun playing myself out there on YouTube and showing who I am and getting to do projects that make me happy versus satisfy what people think a girl should be doing.

In the end, the important thing is that you decide where you will be happy and where you can do well, to show that as well as being footballers, we are people.

I'm not obsessed with the idea of fame or lots of money or social power. I can actually do want I want to do - I'm free - isn't that the greatest prize?

Love is love! People should be able to do whatever makes them happy!

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

The best part of getting to do what you like is just doing it. That doesn't have to do with being famous or even successful or even powerful. I see people in life who are just doing a job and seem to be having a good time. And that's the trick.

Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.

People are never free of trying to be content.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?" "But are you?" "Course I's happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you." I frown at Miss Celia and I make sure she can see it. Because ain't that white people for you, wondering if they are happy ENOUGH.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

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.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.