Want To Be Happy Quotes - Page 4

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

  Rajneesh

  Art, Foundation, Want

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• The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Selfish, Winning

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• You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

  Anne Frank

  Lazy, Want, Should

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• Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Life, Thinking, Want

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• 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.

  Cher Lloyd

  Running, Thinking, Careers

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

  Richard Koch

  People, Choices, Want

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.193, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Good Life, Short Life, Real

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• I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Needs, Want

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• On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.

  Matthew Kelly

  Simple, Hands, Catholic

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.22, BookBaby

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• I'm lonely. What kind of loneliness? Every kind. I feel disconnected. Abandoned. As always. Repetition. So what, my love? So what? At first, I just wanted to run away. Now I have no where else to run to, nothing to run from. I don't belong anywhere, I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to be happy.

  Daul Kim

  Running, Lonely, Loneliness

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• I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

  Lou Rawls

  Philosophy, Want, Free Living

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

  Olivier Martinez

  Doe, Want, Make Sense

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• I want to be happy and stable. My life is clearly going to slow down.

  Nicole Richie

  Want, Life Is, Slow Down

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, People

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• You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Unhappy

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• It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

  Mike Leigh

  Want, Rubbish, Life Is

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

  Paul Schrader

  Unhappy, Want, Unhappiness

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• I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Thinking, People

  "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

  Akio Morita

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 186), 1986.

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• If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact on your thinking and your attitude and can help you to do more, be more, and achieve more!

  Willie Jolley

  Attitude, Book, Thinking

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• If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.

  Tony Meloto

  Want, Lasts, Greater

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• One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."

  Donald Glover

  Dad, Want, Conversation

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• I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy.

  Hannah

  Hbo, Different, Want

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• I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Years, Want, I Want To Be Happy

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

  Chris Thile

  Want, Ifs

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