Niki de St. Phalle Quotes

I can't imagine a more ideal life.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

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

Love is a blissful state, but it's not a utopia.

There is a better place, the hard but joyful work beyond struggle, beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is our real home, the long-remembered future when everything worked and things made sense.

I suspect that perfect happiness is not possible for me. I suppose if I was ever selected for eternal life - the moment I was informed - that would bring me the closest.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

You can be happy where you are.

It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man.

I want to love life.

Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.

I've realised I can be happy.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.