Sydney J. Harris Quotes

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

I'm not like a preacher or philosopher, but at the end of the day, life is about happiness.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

I love life because what more is there?

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.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

I think the most important thing in life is to be happy. If you're happy, it will show in everything that you do.

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

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

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

I think the happiness we find, we make.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

I've lived such a great, fantastic life already, but there's still so much more.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

I think life is really good.

Neither friends nor wealth nor learning have the power to make us glad.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.