Sebastian Horsley Quotes

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

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.

Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

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.

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

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.

Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness

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.

It was worth it. You looked... happy.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

I've got everything I wanted so I'm just happy.