The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.
I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.
If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
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'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
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.
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
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.
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.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!
I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.
I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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.
I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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.
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
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.
Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?
To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.
I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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.
I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy.
I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.
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.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.
I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.
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.
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.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.
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.
There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
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.
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
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.
I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.
There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.
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.
We must be doing something to be happy.
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.
If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.