Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

I just do what makes me happy.

Everybody deserves a right to be happy.

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

A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Don't confuse comfort with happiness.

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.

We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.

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

it's better to be happy...if you can..!!

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.

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

People are never free of trying to be content.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?" "But are you?" "Course I's happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you." I frown at Miss Celia and I make sure she can see it. Because ain't that white people for you, wondering if they are happy ENOUGH.

Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.

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

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.