Justin Vernon Quotes

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody.

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.

I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

To me, love is everything. I can't think of living without it happily. Only when it's there in my life do things happen smoothly for me.

The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and you'll be happy.' I'm happy now, and that has had an effect on my life and my relationship with my wife and kids and even my friends. I've always wanted to be a writer.

Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

Sometimes, you go - you achieve a few things in life. I have achieved more career success than I ever experienced or that I ever thought. And I just realized, it doesn't make you happy. It's an elemental truth. It's so true.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy.

It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life

Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.