Daniel Gilbert Quotes

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

You find happiness where you find it.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.

Money buys you nice things but it doesn't make you happy.

Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

People are never free of trying to be content.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

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.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

I am living my dream every day.

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

My life... I'm really happy with what I've got. If I get more things, I will be happy, but if not, I won't be frustrated.

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

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.