Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

You don't need others to change in order to be happy.

Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.

I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

Success is to be Happy in Life.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.

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.

Better to be happy than wise.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

I don't necessarily buy any key to the future of happiness, but I need a little place in the sun sometimes or I think I will die.

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.

While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

I do not need to play in the Champions League to be happy

As I love and approve of myself and others, my life gets better and better.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.