Holbrook Jackson Quotes

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.

You can be happy when you feel happy from inside, and when you have worked, you are your happiest.

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.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.

I'm happy, and when I score the goals, it is a bonus for me.

I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.

Everybody deserves a right to be happy.

The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

I think success is about purpose. People ask about success at different points in your life. As I look back, I think people that are successful feel good about what they are doing, and they can look back at what they've done and they feel good about it. People sometimes ask about success and they say, "What's your legacy?" and I say, "I think it's really a dumb question." I think the question is: What am I doing now? Do I feel good about myself? Am I proud of myself? Whatever purpose there is in life, I think success is about purpose. It's not about material things.

Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.

I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.

Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth.

Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.