Sharon Creech Quotes

Conchita is a symbol of the fact that you just can live a wonderful life when you do what makes you happy.

My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

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

To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful

Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.

I think one of the things we have in this modern, individualistic age is a recognition that happiness can look very different for very different people. Happiness is not necessarily about how much money you make, happiness isn't necessarily about these aspects of your life.

It's a dream where you live a life that's powerful, one in which you can get married if you want to, raise kids if you want to, get educated to the limit of your capacity, and do what makes you happy, because we all are looking for the good life. We don't want to go through life with just fighting, fighting, fighting.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

I’ve lived every day to the fullest, and I’ve had a marvelous time. I’ve tried to be nice to the people I care about, and ignore the ones I don’t. I enjoy what I’ve done.

I think I'm someone who is pretty happy with themselves and pretty content where they are in life. I want to share my happiness and hopefully enrich people's lives that I come into contact with.

If I died tomorrow I've accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

If something makes someone happy, then that's what they should do.

Everyone wants to be happy at the end of the day. If we can pursue what we really want to do, we don't get bored of life.

When I am happy on the pitch, it's because everything is going well off it.