Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

Happiness is like a cake: have too much of it and you get sick of it.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

I've enjoyed my retirement.

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

As long as I am playing and enjoying playing, then that is all that matters.

Fun and pleasure are just as delicious as achieving a goal.

If you have fun, if you enjoy life, I think that's the most important thing. And if I have that, and I am No. 1 in the world, looks like everything is good.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

The satisfaction of life May not be ours, But the beauty of hope Is all ours.