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Quotes About Happiness

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
~ George J. Mitchell
I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.
~ Nicki Minaj
How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.
~ Gail Godwin
I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.
~ Joss Whedon
I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.
~ Nora Ephron
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.
~ Henry Miller
I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.
~ Georgia Douglas Johnson
Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
~ Billy Boyd
As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.
~ Clint Eastwood
I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
~ Debby Boone
There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy.
~ Diane Lane
Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.
~ Diogenes Laertius
I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
~ Drew Barrymore
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.
~ Elle Macpherson
The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.
~ Gayle King
Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.
~ Gena Showalter
I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.
~ Jennie Garth
I'm always trying to make people happy, that's really my theme on Vine. I always say I love life like crazy and I want people to love life like crazy too.
~ Jerome Jarre
Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.
~ Jess Walter
I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.
~ John Cleese
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
~ John Stuart Mill