Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

All I ever wanted to be was happy.

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

I think I'm as content as one can be.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Feelings are above money.

I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.

Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.

All that you really want in life is to change how you feel.

Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time. Joy, though, is something else. It’s not a choice, not a response to some result, it is a constant. Joy is “the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do,” no matter the outcome.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Once bliss becomes normal it's no longer bliss, it's just peace.

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.

He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou, and whatever it was, it was as sweet as a patch of sun on a glossy floor and, like a cat, she just wanted to curl up in it.