Quotes About Happiness

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.

When you get a walk-off homer, you get to do whatever you want. You need to be excited about it. You don't get too many of those, so you need to enjoy them when they come.

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

Not everyone wants to be happy

Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.

Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. He has always said, "You figure out what you want to do," because he's discovered that personal happiness is connected to everything.

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

I want to be happy because it is beneficial for me but also because I want to be a messenger of happiness to my friends and family.

Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

It's my birthday, I'll get high if I want to.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

Most parents have college funds and things. I don't. I call myself the "hood daddy." I got their money in cash, stashed up. I don't have plans for my kids. I just want them to be happy.

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.