Aja Naomi King Quotes

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

I love to smile.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

Life is a very emotional experience.

Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

We are all negative people, born negative people, so we concentrate on the good things in life, and that's what makes us smile.

If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Every shot makes someone happy.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.