Want To Be Happy Quotes - Page 3

• An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Class, Brain, Want

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• If you want to be happy in life, keep all of your commitments and don't expect other people to keep any of theirs.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Commitment, Happy Life, People

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• I think it's really important to do what you want to do because in the long-run it's your career, you want everything to go well and you want to be happy with what you're doing. It was really important for me to take control of my career.

  Cher Lloyd

  Running, Thinking, Careers

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• The problem being: for years I was struggling - first to prove that I had any talent, then to create some skills and finally to fulfil it reasonably. But then once I got there it was, "OK. I did that, but I want to be happy." And that's a whole different deal. It's kind of like a dance. Being active seems to help. I'm 70, so sometimes a little voice is going, "Just take it easy".

  Iggy Pop

  Struggle, Different, Helping

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you're going to have to have a personal, one-on-one relationship and not look to get through these traditions or these rituals and all this crazy stuff when you could talk to him right here, right now, anytime, anywhere, any place, from any position. And that's the kind of relationship you want, not a standard.

  Ice Cube

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• We all want to be happy.

  Sharon Gannon

  Want

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• One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we put ourselves in the other's shoes. Rather than get caught up in the difference in the ideologies, we actually come back to the fundamental idea: just like me, this person on the opposite political spectrum wants to be happy, wants to be safe, wants to thrive, wants to be healthy, wants to find peace of mind.

  Mark Coleman

  Opposites, Practice, Shoes

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I love making music and performing for my fans, and I want to be happy and doing what I love still. I'm not taking a moment of this for granted, and if I'm lucky I'll be able to keep doing this. I love it. I'm very happy.

  Ariana Grande

  Fans, Lucky, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'd love to have a lifetime career. If you look at people like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, people who have been there forever and who still make relevant music that people want to listen to - that would be amazing. I hope to be able to do that. But above all else, I feel like I just want to be happy.

  Jim James

  Careers, People, Forever

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

  Mike Leigh

  Generosity, Choices, Luck

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Writing, Exercise

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Years, Want, I Want To Be Happy

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• In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Good Life, Short Life, Real

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• I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy.

  Hannah

  Hbo, Different, Want

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• If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

  Chris Thile

  Want, Ifs

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• Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don't want to be happy. I know I won't live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer. I want to go right up close to the beauty and the ugliness. I want to see it all, know it all, understand it all. The richness and the powerty, the joy and the cruelty, the sweetness and the sadness. That's the best way I can honour my friends who died.

  John Marsden

  Hate, Grief, Sadness

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• If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don't have a job, have a purpose. ...When you've got a purpose, the whole world is your office.

  Robert Holden

  Jobs, Successful, Office

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• Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Life, Thinking, Want

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• If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

  Arthur Smith

  Falling In Love, Garden, Long

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• On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.

  Matthew Kelly

  Simple, Hands, Catholic

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.22, BookBaby

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• If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.

  Tony Meloto

  Want, Lasts, Greater

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• Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

  Amity Gaige

  Past, Waiting, Unhappy

  Amity Gaige (2013). “Schroder”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?

  Nick Offerman

  Happy Life, Thinking, Want

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• I just want to be happy. I want to be happy and be able to finish my career in the right way.

  Brandon Jacobs

  Careers, Want, Able

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• You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

  Anne Frank

  Lazy, Want, Should

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