If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
Zig Ziglar
I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.
John Zorn
I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and... →
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
Cate Blanchett
When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and... →
Mary J. Blige
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense... →
Francesca Lia Block
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery... →
Amy Bloom
Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful... →
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long... →