David Levithan Quotes

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

I'm fine with the life I have.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

You can be happy where you are.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

You don't miss what you never had.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.

I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.