Mitski Quotes

I think people really want to be happy.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

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

What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.

Happiness is state of mind.

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

I am happy and content because I think I am.

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

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

It feels so good to be happy.

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

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

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

I think of myself as a really happy person.

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.

Who's happy these days?

My ambition is to be happy.

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

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

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