Best 227 quotes in «being happy quotes» category

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

The only joy in the world is to begin.

The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who will extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about an injustice when they see it.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

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.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.