Happiness Coco Chanel Quotes & Sayings

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation. — Coco Chanel

Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light. — Sri Chinmoy

The most time I spent home in 2009 was about a month. — Theophilus London

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent. — Walter Savage Landor

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy. — Coco Chanel

One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people. — Coco Chanel

And thinking about this, which I have done so much, I discover that I come around, by a back door, to another of the things that obsess me. I mean, of course, this question of 'personality'. Heaven knows we are never allowed to forget that the 'personality' doesn't exist any more. It's the theme of half the novels written, the theme of the sociologists and all the other -ologists. We're told so often that human personality has disintegrated into nothing under pressure of all our knowledge that I've even been believing it. — Doris Lessing

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool. — Etta James

It's weird, how much he's noticed me ... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. — Suzanne Collins

Remember that almost everything looks better after a good night's sleep. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes. — Mike Ditka

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. — Grenville Kleiser

I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I've dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys. — Aleksandar Hemon

Embrace the pain, Sharum. — Peter V. Brett

Julian expected to be full of love and lust, and consequently usually was. He had an inconvenient habit of watching himself from a distance, and wondering whether the love and lust were strained and faked. He was afraid of being isolated and solitary, which he feared was his fate. He was certainly not himself an object of desire to other boys, as far as he knew - and he was knowing. — A.S. Byatt

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is. — Coco Chanel