James Salter Quotes

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

If all we remember are good things, then happiness is our baseline, and there's no longer happiness. We need other feelings in order to appreciate others.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

I am always grateful for what I've got.

I'm blessed; I'm fortunate to be able to play the game that I love every single day.

I consider myself lucky to be going about my business doing something I love.

I just feel lucky to be able to do stuff I enjoy.

I'm a fortunate man, quite fortunate.

I understand it must be hard to realize that the playing field you are collecting all your trophies from is not a level playing field, but that doesn't mean you can just make inaccurate statements.

The world is not equal, unfortunately.

I want to make a lot of people smile.

I am very happy for anyone who is in love.

I am happy at Napoli.

I have so much to be thankful for.

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn’t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.

One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.

I don't think the world works on merit.

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

Being blessed with good health gives you the strength and loving what you do and - is a privilege that keeps you going. So I'm just happy as a lark.