Jonathan Ames Quotes

It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

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.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

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

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

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.

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

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.

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

To be happy. That's the only reason I made the decision to come to L.A. It's not only about football; it's more about life.

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

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

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

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom