Ray Charles Quotes

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.

I think I'm as content as one can be.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

I am happier now than I have ever been.

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

I'm quite happy with the way my life is.

All I want is to live a happy, healthy and contented life.

At the end of the day, when you go to bed, you should be content and happy.

I've got a good life, and I don't think anything can rock that anymore.

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

I'm still happy, I like this life.

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

I feel like I'm at a really happy, good space.

My life now could not be better.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

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

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.