If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.
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.
I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.
I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.
Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
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.
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
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.
We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.
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.
I get way too much happiness from good food.