Want To Be Happy Quotes

I think people really want to be happy.

If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness.

Not everyone wants to be happy

If you want to be happy in your life with love you have to realize nothing ever goes perfectly. Life fluctuates, life is a frequency, it's an undetermined thing, it moves and you have to be able to accommodate that.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

We all want to be happy.

It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

If you want to be happy, just be.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

But the reason we have this built-in desire for happiness is because we're created in God's image. He wired us to want to be happy. Unfortunately, we sometimes disassociate happiness from its true source, which is God Himself. Satan tempts us by offering us happiness, because he knows that's what we want. But he offers it in the wrong places, at the wrong times, and in the wrong things.

Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable.

If you want to be miserable, think of yourself.  If you want to be happy, think of others.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Want to be happy? Don't live competitively. Be content who you are. Live at peace with yourself and the losers below you.

I think it's really important to do what you want to do because in the long-run it's your career, you want everything to go well and you want to be happy with what you're doing. It was really important for me to take control of my career.

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

If you want to be happy, all you have to do is be happy.

If you want to be happy in life, keep all of your commitments and don't expect other people to keep any of theirs.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don't want to be happy. I know I won't live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer. I want to go right up close to the beauty and the ugliness. I want to see it all, know it all, understand it all. The richness and the powerty, the joy and the cruelty, the sweetness and the sadness. That's the best way I can honour my friends who died.

Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.

When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

I'd love to have a lifetime career. If you look at people like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, people who have been there forever and who still make relevant music that people want to listen to - that would be amazing. I hope to be able to do that. But above all else, I feel like I just want to be happy.

On your birthday today, don't Look up 'Life Expectancy' coz I suspect As you've reached 60, you want to be happy, Trust me, you'll be depressed.

If you want to be happy, be.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

Everyone wants to be happy; happiness is a right. And while on a secondary level differences exist of nationality, faith, family background, social status and so on, more important is that on a human level we are the same. None of us wants to face problems, and yet we create them by stressing our differences. If we see each other just as fellow human beings, there'll be no basis for fighting or conflict between us.

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.