Want To Be Happy Quotes

• We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

  Lester Levenson

  Happiness, Letting Go, Past

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• Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers

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• We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, You Make Me Happy

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• If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Happiness, Happy, Military

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• If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Happy, Powerful

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• If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Einstein: A Centenary Volume". Book by A.P. French, p. 32, 1980.

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• Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

  Alan Cohen

  Happiness, Happy, Want

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• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  Dale Carnegie

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• If you want to be happy, be happy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Want, Ifs

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 352, 2006.

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• If you want to be happy, be.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Birthday, Happiness

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 352, 2006.

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• If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Being Happy, Love Life, Want

  Mary Higgins Clark (2011). “ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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• I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

  Aaron Swartz

  World, Want, Changing The World

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• If you want to be happy, just be.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Want, Ifs

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• If you want to be happy, you will be.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Happiness, Attitude, Law Of Attraction

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• There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Being Happy, Mean

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• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

  Cyril Connolly

  Happiness, Passion, Justice

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• As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery.
  We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace.
  The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as
  anger and attachment, fear and suspicion,
  while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility
  are the sources of peace and happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Buddhist, Freedom

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• The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Happy, Goal

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• If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.

  Joel Osteen

  Happy, Positive Thinking, Positivity

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• You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Care, Want, Knows

  Arthur Schnitzler (1911). “Anatol: A Sequence of Dialogues”

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• We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Bullying, Thinking, Differences

  "Ellen DeGeneres to Ann Curry: 'I don't like a lot of attention.'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. October 3, 2011.

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• It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time.

  Andrew Weil

  Want

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