Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

—James Oppenheim

About James Oppenheim

Portrait of James Oppenheim

James Oppenheim (24 May 1882 – 4 August 1932) was an American poet, novelist, and editor. A lay analyst and early follower of Carl Jung, Oppenheim was also a founder and editor of The Seven Arts.

More quotations tagged with “happiness”

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

—J. D. Salinger

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

—Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

—George Bernard Shaw

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

—Eddie Cantor

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

—Doris Lessing

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