Eric Weiner Quotes

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

I don't necessarily buy any key to the future of happiness, but I need a little place in the sun sometimes or I think I will die.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.

I'm happy and I have a great life.

The satisfaction of life May not be ours, But the beauty of hope Is all ours.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Life was meant to be happy.

And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?

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

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

People are never free of trying to be content.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

Hope is itself a species of happiness.

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.