Julie Delpy Quotes

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.

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

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.

There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

Who's happy these days?

I'm happy and I have a great life.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

As long as I'm enjoying what I'm doing, then that's fine. That's what I want. I want to enjoy life. We're only here for a small ride, so it may as well be a good one. If I can go to work enjoying what I do, then my life becomes a very nice one.

I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.

...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.

One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

You find happiness where you find it.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.