Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

I just happen to think people are better off doing something they actually like.

Most people think that you need to be healthy in order to happy.

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

To be happy - that's all that matters.

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.

I want to be a vehicle to help people connect the dots that let them make their lives healthier, happier, more beautiful, and more fun.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

People are never free of trying to be content.

One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself. And, through Harvard-based research, we can see that happy people live longer.

I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.

The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

Our time on Earth is already short enough. For me, it's like every single day I try to be as happy as I can. It's crazy to think about. We never have enough time. That's always the thing. We always want to do more. So it's about being able to spend time on the things that are most important to you. Life is a lot easier that way, and obviously life is pretty difficult a lot of the time.