If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
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.
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.
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.
I am free. If I want to be sad, it is my freedom. If I want to be happy, it is my freedom. Once you know that you are your world, you have penetrated into a different kind of understanding. Then nothing else matters - all else is games and excuses.
I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.
I want to be happy because it is beneficial for me but also because I want to be a messenger of happiness to my friends and family.
I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
God, I'm a girl with a cursed fate. I've fallen in love with a boy and I want to be happy.
People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
What I look for is a man who can be a friend, someone who is an equal and one with whom I feel comfortable. I want to be happy and loved, and not settling for something second best and less than I deserve. But a relationship of and by itself is not what is going to make this gal survive - a relationship is the cherry on the top of the cake
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