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Quotes About Happiness

Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.
~ Asher Roth
God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise
~ Craig Groeschel
Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.
~ Buddhadasa
Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money
~ Suge Knight
Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.
~ Albert Ellis
Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had I've been with you such a long time You're my sunshine and I want you to know That my feelings are true I really love you Oh you're my best friend
~ John Deacon
The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.
~ Patch Adams
The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.
~ James Corden
Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
~ Alain de Botton
I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.
~ Bo Jackson
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.
~ C. S. Lewis
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
~ Socrates
I always tell my kids, "Find something that you love and within that you'll find some job that you can do and you'll always be happy. You'll go to a job that you want to go to."
~ Tom Petty
When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.
~ Guy Kawasaki
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
~ Quentin Crisp
I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.
~ Pharrell Williams
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.
~ Mother Teresa
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.
~ Dalai Lama
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
~ Syd Barrett
We're born, we live, we die. The most important thing out of those three is to live your life the way you want to.
~ Shannon Leto