Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

Happiness never becomes a habit.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

Happiness is more important than money any day.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

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

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

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

Happiness is a privilege.

Happiness is a hardy annual.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

Being happy is more important than anything else.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Better to be happy than wise.

Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Happiness is a state of activity.

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting