If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
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.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
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.
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 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.
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.
I just want to be happy. And I find that people that have the least in life are sometimes the happiest. And I don't have the least in life. I have enough in life. And I won't sacrifice my health for that.
Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.
I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.
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.
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.
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.
I just want to be happy. I want to be happy and be able to finish my career in the right way.
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.
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