An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Yeah, I’d be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.
Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
I’d be happy to be taken as a woman – and that’s what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn’t going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I’d change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there’s no one way. It’s your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It’s your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.
God didn’t create the universe so that talented people would be happy.
You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.
My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn’t change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change – we can be miserable or we can be happy. It’s what you make of your life.
If it hadn’t worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I’d be happy there, too.
We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common – which is – we all want to be happy.
So it doesn’t have to be happy music to be inspiring.
Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
When I get married, I think what matters is you should be happy with the person you are living with.
If you are trying to be happy and trying to be kind, you’ve already won.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: ‘Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we’ll all be happy.
I wouldn’t push my kids to do anything. I want them to be happy, healthy, and I want them to be who they want to be, you know?
You can’t be happy in a place like London when you don’t have money.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
Some people just aren’t meant to be happy.
I could just play my horn in my room for 20 minutes a day, and I will be happy.
I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.
I’m by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it’s something you have to really work on.
If you’re doing what you do because you love it, you have room to be happy for others. And that’s a lot of fun, when you get down to it.
Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don’t conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn’t change that for anybody.
I don’t need the NFL to be happy or successful.
I don’t trust the Bee Gee’s because there’s no way they could always be happy.
I look at ‘Friday Night Lights’ as one of my all-time favorite series finales, and that is what you want. After all the roads you’ve traveled with these people, you just want to know that they’re going to be happy. I’m a big believer in shows that make that choice.
It’s important to keep on keeping on, to feel good about yourself and be happy with who you are.
I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that’s the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you.
I’d be happy if I was part of a Liverpool side that kept winning titles, cups, and made history. I just want to win and carrying on winning for Liverpool.
I’ve learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn’t be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.
I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: ‘This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.’
I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don’t care if it’s a magazine or a bossy friend – when somebody says, ‘This is what’s elegant, this is what’s trendy,’ if it doesn’t represent you, you’re not going to be happy.
Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.
I am going to be happy regardless where I am at as long as I am playing basketball with some guys that have the same common goal that I have, and that is to win.
The hallmark of a good comedy is that it can make you laugh, but it can also take you to the point where you’re in love with these characters, and you want to see them be happy, and you want to feel that emotion for them.
Anytime you get rewarded for all the work you put into this game, you’re going to be happy about it.
I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
If something comes along that’s really good, and I think I would be good for it, I’d be happy to do it. But not too many came along. I mean, they came along for the first, I don’t know, 15, 18 films, but I didn’t do that many. But then I didn’t want to do the kind of junk I was seeing.
I do not have any strong desire to remain in government. When my task is done, I shall be happy to leave and enhance my love life with my husband.
Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
I think videos are really hard. I’m yet to be happy with a video. It’s very weird watching yourself on camera, which I guess I’m going to have to get used to. I love the thought of being in them, but it’s one thing to say that and another to actually do it.
I don’t know if I’m ready to know what triggers my anger. I just feel like I figured out on my own how to stay calm, how to enjoy life, how to be happy.
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.
If I can represent that body type of women that isn’t represented so much in media, then I’d be happy to do that.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
I don’t need many things. I don’t need glamour and attention to be happy. I’m very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
I’m not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.
If I ask you, ‘What do you want out of life?’ and you say something like, ‘I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,’ it’s so ubiquitous that it doesn’t even mean anything. Everyone wants that.
I have a pretty active presence on social networking sites, and every day there are messages from so many young girls telling me that they are happy B-Town has curvy women like me. I feel you should be happy the way you are. Of course, fitness is important, but not to the extent of obsession!
A lot of actors think they can’t be happy without the acting… But I think I couldn’t be happy with it anymore.
If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren’t supposed to be happy; they’re supposed to do well.
I am passionate about cinema in general. Eventually, I am making films for people to watch and enjoy, but somewhere, I have to be satisfied, too. I want to be happy after doing a film.
What’s important is that people never give up that fight to be happy, because when you do that, that’s when things really start to go wrong.
I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I’m just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We’re always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it’s got to be happy.
There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the ‘burbs and be happy. But forging my own way – my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people – that’s who I am.
I know that there’s people that have expectations of me, and I’m a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
