To Be Happy Quotes
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.
People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.
My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.
I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.
Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?
The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
We all get frustrated and we all get angry, especially being young. We're happy so quickly, we're mad so quickly, and everything is just flowing so fast.
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.
Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.
If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded for gold.
What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.
I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.
When you smile and project an aura of warmth, kindness, and friendliness, you will attract warms, kindness, and friendliness. Happy people will be drawn to you.
A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.
I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.
If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.
If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence.
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.
Having a safe space to imagine and dream and (re)invent yourself is the first step to being happy and successful, whatever road you choose to pursue.
I have my own worries and concerns and frustrations, but I'm doing something I love to do. My wife and kids are in good shape. What is there not to be happy about?
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.
In the middle of a wheat field under a beautiful sunshine anybody can be happy; the important thing is to be happy in the middle of a storm under the darkest clouds!
...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.
Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.
I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.