Want To Be Happy Quotes - Page 4

• Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life. Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then sow seeds of happiness today -count blessings, memorize Bible verses, pray, sing hymns, spend time with encouraging people. Do you want to guarantee tomorrow's misery? Then wallow in a mental mud pit of self-pity or guilt or anxiety today assume the worst, beat yourself up, rehearse your regrets, complain to complainers.

  Max Lucado

  Running, Regret, Thinking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

  Richard Koch

  People, Choices, Want

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.193, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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

  Louise Hay

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Punishing Yourself

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

  Arina Tanemura

  Girl, Fate, Boys

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• What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adventure, Mirrors, Joy

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• Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Simple, Breathing, Want

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• You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

  Paulo Coelho

  Want, Boring, Easy

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• Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Business, Goal

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.48, Penguin

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• They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.

  Barney Frank

  School, Kids, Two

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• Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.

  Leon Brown

  Beautiful, Past, Matter

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• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Happiness, World, Want

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• my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Two, Three

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.15, Canongate Books

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• Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.

  Eric Weiner

  Meaningful, Laughter, Happy Life

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.325, Random House

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• People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Moving, People

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.

  Puff Daddy

  Want, Able, Combs

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• I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Dad, Father, Want

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• Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

  Joyce Meyer

  Victory, Our Words, Lines

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• We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mean, Needs, Want

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Feb 20, 2011

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• I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

  David Walliams

  Kids, Helping Others, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.

  Johnny Weir

  Cooking, Want, Proud

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• I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Things In Life, People

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• Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?

  Megan Hart

  Pain, Memories, Grief

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• I am free. If I want to be sad, it is my freedom. If I want to be happy, it is my freedom. Once you know that you are your world, you have penetrated into a different kind of understanding. Then nothing else matters - all else is games and excuses.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Games

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• 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.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Unhappy, World

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• Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, People, Want

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)”, p.52, Harper Collins

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