Anais Nin Quotes

I don't know how to be happy - They didn't teach it in my school

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

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.

My well-being and my happiness is much more important to me than how much I can achieve.

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.

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

I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me.

I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

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.

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

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 things that make us happy make us wise.

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

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

I would say probably not being able to do what I want to do and not being completely fulfilled and happy. I don't know how that would manifest itself in a mirror. It's just that feeling of not being satisfied with my life would be the worst thing that could ever happen to me.

My life and happiness speaks for itself.

Everything you want to be, do or have comes from love.

I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.

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

In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.