Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying about whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.

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.

You find happiness where you find it.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

My life is fulfilled.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

I feel that I've done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.