Albert Camus Quotes

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying about whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.

You can be happy where you are.

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

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

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.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

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

Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it's very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it's quite a miracle.

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

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

Sometimes I think we live in a world where, even when things are good, people always feel unsatisfied with wherever they are, so I think first I just want to enjoy being happy where I am now and not let my ambition take away from being in the moment.

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

I don't need much to be happy.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

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.