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If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.
Sep 10, 2025
The scalpel won't make you happy.
Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.
You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.
Don't depend on something that comes from outside. Outside things are never going to make you happy.
Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.
If it makes you happy it can't be that bad
If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.
Your brain is not designed to make you happy. That's your job!
Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
Yes, design can make you happy.
Stay positive and do whatever makes you happy.
Are the choices you are making going to really make you happy NOW or happy eventually?
Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?
You've gotta do things that make you happy.
How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?
Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.
I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.
You should only be doing the thing that makes you happy. Not just surface happy.
Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.
Just wear what makes you happy. If you're happy, it's a great outfit.
Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.
A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!
You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy
You know what’s best for you, and you know what will make you happy.
If you truly love something, fight for it every day, as long as it makes you happy.
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.
I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.
Do what makes you happy, and don't care what others think.
A possession can't make you happy.
If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.
If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.
Do what makes you happy. And when it doesn't make you happy anymore, make a change -- without fear.
There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!
Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It's about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.
If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.
Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don't know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can't have what they want.
Get into the relationship for the right reason because it's a great support system, because it's a great compliment to your life, because it's someone that actually fulfills you and makes you happy.
To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!
Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every relationship should color your soul to a certain degree, don't you think? Every friendship, every love affair - each one should build up the chambers of your heart the way a sea creature builds the chamber of his shell.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
My daughter went to the school, and it's a very, very progressive and liberal school, and my commencement speech was telling the kids just to always be willing to quit, and that they need to quit a lot in their lives, and keep on quitting, because all the happiness I've ever got was when I turned my back on things that everybody else thought would make you happy. I can smell parents' stomach acid right now, but they know that whole "You gotta get a job and you gotta settle for what people perceive as success" thing is really absurd.