I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ’cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Looking back, I’m really happy with the choices I’ve made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don’t know. But just about every single thing I’ve ever done I’ve gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.
I can’t rely on my money to be happy.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
I don’t need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Happy people stay together in my philosophy.
The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can’t be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they’re gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I’m not happy about it.
Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.
I’m the most carefree, happy person you’ll meet.
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted… to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
I know if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Acting is happy agony.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn’t be a human being, you’d be a game show host.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
When I look back on my life, I overpaid for my big successes every time. And when I tried to get a bargain, get it a little cheaper or get a better deal on it, I ended up usually either getting it and not happy I got it. Or missing it.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
I’m excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn’t have high expectations, I wouldn’t come back here.
I considered myself very lucky after ‘Baghdad Cafe,’ and I have ‘The Shield.’ In every genre, I’ve kicked butt at some point. I’m real happy.
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
I don’t think there’s anybody in this world who should be required to make you feel good about yourself. Be happy on your own.
To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God’s hands, and I am very happy about that!
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Having the family around is always very important because they are supportive. If you have a good day, you can enjoy it together. And if you have a bad day, you always find something as a distraction with your children, because they are normally happy.
If it makes me happy, it definitely adds to my well-being.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
Just watching my cats can make me happy.
I’m one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
‘But,’ say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, ‘we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.’ On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
You can be happy where you are.
Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.
I always say: ‘Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,’ but some things make me question it. I don’t know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that’s really scary.
I am happy and I’m single.
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.
If I am doing a speech at a Labour party meeting – I think I have done every constituency – I’ll look for a happy face, and talk to that face. In the Commons, with all the anger, I’ll fix on a blank panel above their heads.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Give me something interesting to play and I’m happy.
Anti-depressants helped me get up in the morning and stopped me from being sad, but what they also do is stop you from being happy. So I was just in this numb state. I stopped laughing at jokes, and that’s just not me.
As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.
I feel like somebody who just is very understanding is my biggest thing – timing is a major issue for me – but also funny! Obviously I want someone really cute and fun and fresh for good Instagram pictures and that just makes me really happy.
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
My natural state is to be happy. I’m naturally buoyant. I wake up feeling, ‘What a great morning!’ I’ve had some tragedy in my life, absolutely, but I don’t know one human being who hasn’t. You either learn from it and become empowered by it, or you become a victim to it. It’s life, after all.
The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.
If your only intent is to be seen, you’ll never be seen. If your intent is to be happy, comfortable, genuine, and true in craft, you’re destined to be noticed.
There’s no stopping same-sex dancing couples. I don’t understand how people being happy can affect others so much – just let them be.
As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while, good governance must be earned.
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.
I have received so much love from people. Why will I feel insecure? I am happy.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
