Paul Dickson Quotes

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.

I enjoy my life very much.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.

Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

I always think everything has been the best part of my life.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.

Beautiful things make people happy.

I like happy endings.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

I feel good. I think everything went good.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,' and I actually meant it.

You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.