Pursuit of Contentment Quotes

Happiness is not the portion of man.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.

Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.