Marcus Brigstocke Quotes

You can be right or you can be happy.

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

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

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all right there, it would be a little overwhelming. I don't know how you'd have a relationship. When you have a relationship, don't two people collude to kind of forget certain things?

I'm going to make this T-Shirt up saying, 'you can either be right or be happy.'

As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.

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

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I'm not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense?

What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.

I think the most important thing in life is to be happy. If you're happy, it will show in everything that you do.

I don't have any regrets at all.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

I've been more content with just who I am.