Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?
Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on, delighting like a pagan in all that is physical; and i know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart.
The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.
You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.
If something makes someone happy, then that's what they should do.
Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.
I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.
The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.
Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.
I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.
I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.
Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else.
Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.
Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider
So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.
