I don’t take on a project unless I know the end result is going to make me happy. If I can’t give 100 percent to something, I choose not to do it because it’s very difficult to have so many pots on the fire at one time.
If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky – this is happiness. Truly happiness.
I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
Others may recognise their world in ‘Eat Sleep Work Repeat’. This podcast is the side project of Bruce Daisley, who works at Twitter. It consists of him talking to experts about what makes us happy at work and why.
I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?
Did you know you’re supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ twice?
I’m very comfortable in my skin. Everyone has insecurities – I joke around about wishing I had more cheeks – but I’m happy with who I am. You have to make do with what you have. If you carry yourself right, you can make anything look good.
I do not want horses or diamonds – I am happy in possessing you.
I’m really happy to be me, and I’d like to think people like me more because I’m happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.
I’m extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It’s a special moment in my career.
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
Success doesn’t mean that you are healthy, success doesn’t mean that you’re happy, success doesn’t mean that you’re rested. Success really doesn’t mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
By nature, I’m a very positive person, and because I’m happy in myself, and in my life, and I’ve got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I’m happy.
As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We’re also better at letting things go.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.
You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
I don’t care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I’m happy, I’m living my life, and that’s what it is.
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
It’s always good when you see your name with legends of a club like Liverpool. It’s a different feeling, and I’m very happy about that.
Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can’t lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
Nintendo’s mission is to try to make people happy, to try to make people smile.
I was always too mature for my age – and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a ‘pretty girl.’ Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I’m sent, and they describe the heroine as ‘incredibly beautiful,’ I wonder why they sent it to me.
What you feel inside reflects on your face. So be happy and positive all the time.
When I did ‘Happy Birthday,’ I wrote the treatment for the video before I wrote the record. And once I wrote the video, I had a clear understanding of what I wanted; I created the soundtrack to that video.
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
I have a great wife and it’s very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she’s happy.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
I’m perfectly happy complaining, because it’s cathartic, and I’m perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime – not programming.
I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I’m happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.
And I’m a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there’s nothing more aging than misery.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
I am happy with what comes, I don’t have expectations of any stature.
Nobody has a completely happy life, unless you’re completely imbecilic. Life is mostly pretty awful.
I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I’m not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it’s all said and done, it’s all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that’s one of hope.
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.
I’m very happy to say goodbye to the three-button suits. I hate three-button suits. Some people can pull them off, but they’re legitimately really, really skinny. Unfortunately, the only people who actually wear them are, like, Mr. Monopoly, and people like that.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
