Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
I don’t really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.
I don’t think winning an award changes things. It makes you feel happy.
If someone wants to do something, they should just do it as long as they’re happy with it.
Success doesn’t make you happy.
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
I’m artistically satisfied and happy.
I need freedom to be happy.
You’d die very sad if you tried to make everyone in the world happy, you know what I mean? You can’t; no one can.
If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.
I can sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it’s a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren’t about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.
Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.
I’m happy, I’m in a good place, I’m looking forward to my future.
If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that’s when your positive thoughts work.
I am extremely satisfied and content. I am happy and I think happiness is enough for everything.
I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
I’m very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it’s something you have to carry with you, it’s definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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.
If I have the power to post ‘Happy Birthday’ on someone’s Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I’m a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It’s fun.
If it’s going to make you happy, go for it – life is short.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
I am happy being what I am.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
As long as I’m happy with myself and mentally happy, it doesn’t matter what other people think. Everyone’s always going to have an opinion, you can’t stop that.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
No one is happy all his life long.
Nobody’s perfect, so don’t go out there and try to act like you got to live a perfect life. Be yourself, and be happy with it.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
It’s up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you’re not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can’t rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us – of becoming happy – is not attainable: yet we may not – nay, cannot – give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
