Quotes About Happiness

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

Life is too short to be unhappy.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

At its essence, 'Groundhog Day' is an existential journey of an unhappy, judgmental, slightly narcissistic, misogynistic, dissatisfied, aspirational, entitled, privileged male who has to learn to be the opposite of all those things to find happiness - to learn that learning is important and that you don't get to control everything.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Success has got nothing to do with being happy. I've been very rich, and been unhappy, and I've been very poor, and been happy.

I'm a big believer that if you're happy and your employees are happy, your customers are going to be happy. If you're unhappy and your employees are unhappy, there's no way your customers are going to be happy.

I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.

I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.

I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

Kids are the most conventional people in the world. It is more important than anything else for them to conform, and I was a kind of oddball. I was driven into being independent. I was very, very unhappy.

The unhappy people are those who listen to others. I never listened to anyone, and I'm very happy.

I can't imagine a world where I wouldn't have the means of expression. When I talk to people who don't, it seems like they're really unhappy.

I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.