Ben Jonson Quotes

It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.

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.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Stuff can't make you happy.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

Being happy in general makes life so much easier.

The people that I associate with, the circle that I keep, is real simple, and sometimes we think or we're trained to believe that you always have to have more, more, more to make ourselves feel happy or beautiful, but it's the other way around for me. Simplicity is sexy.

As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.

I like my life. It's good.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!

I'm fine with the life I have.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.