When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all.
From my side, I don’t put pressure on the director to cater to a certain image. I am happy to do different films, and I have to stick by my director. I like to completely surrender myself to the director – that way, I think, I don’t get to do the similar roles.
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
I’ve always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they’d still say I’m a dark personality.
When you’re happy at home, you can make a lot of things happen.
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.
I’m really happy to be a mom, and I’m proud of the phase I’m in.
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
I am very happy to say I look just like my dad. But mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I’m happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.
No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
Right now I’m really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I’m not thinking of doing anything else.
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?
I’m never happy with my performances. I always want to prove more and more things.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
I have long maintained that each of us has three chances a day to be happy: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
It’s so important for people to have a space that they love, and that you wake up happy every morning in your house. A big part of that is what you have for your furniture, your art, your decor.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don’t think I would have been very happy. I’d be in front of the jury singing.
I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d given customers what they said they wanted, we’d have built a computer they’d have been happy with a year after we spoke to them – not something they’d want now.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy, so they keep coming back. It’s not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time; it is just the way it works.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
My kids, I love it when they tell me, ‘Abba, I want to be an artist.’ And I say, that is awesome… I just want you to be happy and to follow your heart.
I have some tracks and songs written for future collaboration, and I’m happy to work with artists who have the right voice and taste.
You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I’m so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
I’m very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
I am never embarrassed to relax. I am not part of any rat race. I am very happy to be by myself.
I had fame and wealth and things that are supposed to make you happy, but I wasn’t happy, because there’s no importance on having a fulfilling life. So in my mid-40s, that was my pursuit – making films that interested me, films that I would like to go see.
Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
I am so happy to be a meme.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
I like my peace. I am happy in my space.
I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.
There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.
To me, Steve was my Prince Charming. He was my happily ever after, and we got that. We got 14 years of marriage; we had the best, most fantastic, adventurous, wonderful life that you could imagine. And I was very happy with that.
I’m successful every day because I look in the mirror, and I’m happy with who I am.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
For me, there’s still a lot of room to grow; I’m just happy that I have so much more to give.
I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.
Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home.
Mornin’ ladies, my goodness don’t you look happy. Must be cuttin’ somebody up pretty good.
I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
I do things my way. I don’t do things to make people happy or appease them.
Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
That’s just part of being in ‘X-Men.’ There’s, like, 20 main characters, and 15 of them are household names, so obviously you’re happy for anything you can get.
Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
