Lykke Li Quotes

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.

The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways, it's been through no design of my own.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

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.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.

I'd rather be happy than right.

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.

I've realised I can be happy.

I would not change anything I've done or what I've lived, and with whom I have lived it.

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've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.

To be happy is, I guess, the most important thing in life.

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.

Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.