Quotes About Happiness

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

Most people are as happy as they want to be.

We allow each other to pursue our goals. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who was not happy with what they were doing with their life and Bono wouldn't either.

God, I'm a girl with a cursed fate. I've fallen in love with a boy and I want to be happy.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way.

Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.

In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

No, I don't have a boyfriend, I don't want one.

There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

I feel life is to be lived. You want to spend your time doing things and being with friends and all that.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.

Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

A guy isn't the only thing that will make me happy. If I never find romance or love, that will be okay. It's what I want, but it doesn't define me.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.