Daniel Gilbert Quotes

When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'

We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life.

I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness.

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

I like ice cream, I don't like pain.

Everyone loves feeling comfortable. But it's actually completely useless.

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

Life is all about having a good time.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

I like entertaining. I adore it. I feel I'm in the right place. Without question.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

There's no fear when you're having fun.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.