John Crowley Quotes

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

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

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

Success is to be Happy in Life.

Better to be happy than wise.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

Success is.... happiness. Is that too Deepak Chopra?

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

I know that there are other sides to life. All the more reason why I now try to convey to the people out there how important it is to feel a sense of joy.

All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

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