Alanis Morissette Quotes

I thought happiness came from achievement.

Fame doesn't make you happy.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

I feel blessed, I really feel fulfilled.

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

Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Don't shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don't get to live.

If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

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

I am happy with what I've done.

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

I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

There must be more to life than having everything.

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.

I'm a simple kind of guy, so I just envision myself being happy.