J. D. Salinger Quotes

I'm in love and I'm happy. Don't you see it?

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

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.

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

Only the soul that loves is happy

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time. Joy, though, is something else. It’s not a choice, not a response to some result, it is a constant. Joy is “the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do,” no matter the outcome.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.