Amount Quote by Thomas Ligotti

“For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get…

— Thomas Ligotti

“The point that in the absence of birth nobody exists who can be deprived of happiness is terribly conspicuous. For optimists, this fact plays…

— Thomas Ligotti

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me.…

— Marion Milner

We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a…

— Rajneesh

“Clearly,” I said, “we should choose not to have good sense, if that good sense contributes to our misery.” Everyone agreed with me, and…

— Voltaire

The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this…

— Robert Holden

Happiness is not a life without problems, but rather the strength to overcome the problems that come our way.

— Senora Roy

Eventually we learn to define happiness for ourselves, on our own terms, in spite of the pain other people have caused us.

— Joseph January

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

— Brendon Burchard

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

— Phillips Brooks

We all make different choices, and we need different things. But, I think eventually we learn to define happiness for ourselves on our own…

— Joseph January

Greedy people never find happiness because they always think they need something else or something better in order to be happy.

— Sonya Parker