Andre Leon Talley Quotes

I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

My father's only advice is to 'do what makes you happy,' and I follow it religiously.

Conchita is a symbol of the fact that you just can live a wonderful life when you do what makes you happy.

I'm living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.

I'm not obsessed with the idea of fame or lots of money or social power. I can actually do want I want to do - I'm free - isn't that the greatest prize?

My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.

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

The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy.

Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle . . .

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.