Francis Atterbury Quotes

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

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

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I think I'm as content as one can be.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

I think the happiness we find, we make.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

I am happier now than I have ever been.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

I think we're as happy as we make up our minds to be.

Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.

I'm quite happy with the way my life is.

You can't be in a situation where you are not happy. It's as simple as that.

I think we can choose to be happy in our lives.

You can't enjoy your life if you don't enjoy YOURSELF.

There's a happiness about me, a confidence and a happiness that I didn't have when I was younger. You feel good inside, you look good outside. I feel like I look like somebody who's having a good life, who's enjoying it a little better than I did before. You can be really good-looking in your twenties but feel miserable, and people just sort of walk away.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

The key to happiness. Hm.... There are just so many factors. I think it's just a way of being. It's about.... every little thing in moderation. Whether it be stress, anger, joy, depression.