Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

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

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

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.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

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

Money and fame, it only makes you so happy. You gotta find other reasons to fight. I want a certain amount of money to do the things that I want to do.

Happiness is total and complete satisfaction with yourself

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

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.

And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?

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

Happiness is the most important thing.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time. Joy, though, is something else. It’s not a choice, not a response to some result, it is a constant. Joy is “the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do,” no matter the outcome.

Happiness is the only thing I understand.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

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.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.