Sheryl Crow Quotes

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

What is wrong with enjoying yourself? What is wrong in being happy? If there is anything wrong it is always in your unhappiness, because an unhappy person creates ripples of unhappiness all around him. Be happy!

Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.

Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

My dad said, "As long as you're happy." I used to think it was kind of a very simple idea or philosophy because he wasn't religious. But you've got to try and be happy. And if you're not happy, you can't help anyone else. So obviously, some crazy people could go to places, but I just think you need to be content within yourself, so that's the thing.

Unhappiness was my god.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

I will always try to be happy. I don’t think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it’s like to be in that very, very dark place. It’s not romantic. Not even a little.

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.