Mary Pilon Quotes

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

I think people really want to be happy.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

My ambition is to be happy.

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.

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

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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

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.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.