When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn’t know I was going to become a writer – I just knew I’d never been happy in school, and I had this strong suspicion I’d be happy doing other things.
When you work hard, you are not going to be happy the whole time, you are going to have frustration, bad times in life.
I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
It is a very happy feeling that a legend like Rahul Dravid talks highly about me. But I can’t just sit back and be happy about it. I have to back it up with my performances.
I love the energy, and I just love watching people lose their minds and be happy and exhilarated. There is nothing like it.
I’ve realised I can be happy.
I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life – watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.
I’m terrified of dying because of everything being too unfinished. I would be happy being a ghost.
Artists that are perfectionists? We find it hard sometimes to be happy a lot.
There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you’re writing mysteries – oh, no, you can’t have an ending like that. It must be tidy.
I will be happy to deliver for my country as an all-rounder, for which I am working very hard in the nets.
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
I don’t usually talk about the social work I do because I don’t do it for publicity. If I can bring a smile to the face of a few children in this one lifetime, I’d be happy.
I love making friends and make others happy. But I also love to be happy all the time. All that aggression that you see remains on the court only.
After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
I can still feel unsure in myself, and l’m still insecure about certain things, but my desire to be happy and my desire to be free is very strong.
I just try to be happy playing my football.
I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‘I’ma do that,’ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.
If everybody’d agree to quit using money, I’d be happy to play for free every day for awhile. But I don’t play benefits or any kind of fund-raisers. I prefer to play at hospitals, for people who otherwise can’t see us. But I can’t see playing for causes, whatever the cause may be.
When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you’ve made. I tell myself, in the long run, it’s the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.
I don’t think you’ll ever be happy about anything unless you’ve done it.
Life is very short. Try to enjoy your ‘now.’ Many people think that when they become such-and-such then they will be happy. I personally don’t think it is healthy to postpone your happiness. My message is, ‘Enjoy the moment.’
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn’t dwindle off. It would be too sad.
Be happy in your own skin.
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I’d zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.
Don’t think you’re going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.
If I have 1% of my dad’s brain, I’ll be happy. He’s so quick.
I feel like I’m as mischievous as you can be while still never wanting to hurt anyone’s feelings. I really want everyone to be happy all the time, but I do like seeing what new things you can talk about.
They’re inherently good people, every single person that I’ve ever worked with on an ‘Avengers’ film. I think they want to do good, and they want people to be happy, and they want to speak what they believe.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.
Some people can act Hollywood and others don’t. I just try to live my life as a normal, everyday man. At times, fame does get to you. But you must stay positive and remember two things: It’s easier to be happy, and without all those fans, life wouldn’t be as good as it is.
I play to be happy in the first place and then to help my colleagues and my team the best way I can, with the best football.
I think it’s always a really stupid thing to base your achievement on someone else. I just want to base it on myself… do something that I can be proud of, and then I’ll be happy.
All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
I just have so few sunrises left, and I want to be happy.
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that’s what I studied in college. That’s what I always wanted to do.
It’s the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It’s pretty simple.
A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.
I’d be happy to play in Sao Paulo. It would be a dream; that would be very exciting.
Becoming a commercial scene? I don’t think people in grime would be happy about that.
If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don’t know what I’ll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.
Respect your partner. Be happy in your partner’s happiness.
I’m an open book. I speak to people all the time and generally have a smile on my face. I’m true to who I am, so you can never always smile and be happy.
If you try to hold on to something you don’t have anymore, you can’t be happy in the moment.
I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.
When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.
I want to work and be happy.
To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it’s off course from their north star, they aren’t satisfied.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Like every mother, I also want Alia and Shaheen to be happy. Whatever they do, they should feel satisfied doing it. I’m not a paranoid mother who pushes them to settle down.
We’re only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow.
A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.
In general, you don’t want to move your kids when they’re teenagers. They’re not going to be happy with you.
I don’t give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I’m only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.
Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren’t… But I must live my life.
