William Butler Yeats Quotes

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.

My life changed completely. It's crazy now. It's kind of gone from striving and wondering and being confused and being lost to just feeling like the most blessed person in the world - just happy to wake up every day, happy to get on a plane every time. Just couldn't be happier with life, really.

I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

Live in the sunshine.

It doesn't cost a thing to smile.

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.

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 our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.

If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.

Don’t be gloomy. Do not dwell on unkind things. Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. ‘Accentuate the positive.’ Look a little deeper for the good. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life.

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

Life is meant to be lived.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.

I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.