Ray Bradbury Quotes

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.

Life: my favorite occupation.

Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

I want to live a fulfilling life.

Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are "going through," but what we are "growing to"-a greater sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment. Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

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.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

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.

Do what brings you joy, and your purpose will unfold.