Lewis Black

I have to plan my happiness. That’s the thing, we think happiness just happens and it can, but you’ve got to work in some happiness too.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

If happiness is what you’re after, you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though, joy is the feeling that we have doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

To fill the hour – that is happiness.

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless allows us to seek happiness in the place it can be found: Our real, messy, imperfect experience

Happiness ain’t a thing in itself -it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain’t happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich.