Audre Lorde Quotes

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with where you're at.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.

I think I was always joyous, but I don't think I became very aware of positivity and its power until I became older. I always did it naturally, but then I lost it, and it forced me to find it again and appreciate it more.

If you leave this world with a full heart, then that is a beautiful life. And that's what I want.

To me, love is everything. I can't think of living without it happily. Only when it's there in my life do things happen smoothly for me.

I never wanna lose the joy, passion, or even appreciation for how much fun it is to do what I love.

As a kid you can sense fear, love happiness very easily.

The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement, but also knowing about light and waiting. Young as I am, I know now that everything is about to come. Jimmy will be the place for me to learn the real happiness. He will be my Joy School. My joy. Mine.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.

The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

As I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love.

When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Love gives life purpose and meaning.

What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn't matter what job I took, my mother's answer was, "Do what will make you happy." It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today's events will bring.

The things that make us happy make us wise.

If you become a little alert you will find love, light, laughter, everywhere.

Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.