Diane Keaton Quotes

People are never free of trying to be content.

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.

I'm not like a preacher or philosopher, but at the end of the day, life is about happiness.

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.

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.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

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

We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.

Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

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

As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

Happiness, at my age, is breathing

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

The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.

To be happy - that's all that matters.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.