David Leonhardt Quotes

I want to live a fulfilling life.

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

Success is to be Happy in Life.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

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.

My life and happiness speaks for itself.

I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.

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

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.

I think no matter whether you're old or young or dying or living, to get to a place where you feel fulfilled and content is really rare and really cool.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.