Quotes About Someone Else's Happiness

#1. You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

Jennifer O'Neill

#2. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

Donna Ball

#3. We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Robert Breault

#4. When your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love

Lana Del Rey

#5. You can't raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren't happy and don't know who you are. You can't pin your life on someone else's happiness.

Jean Oram

#6. Don't let your tears be seen; it may hurt someone else's happiness.

M.F. Moonzajer

#7. Just want to be a footnote in someone else's happiness.

Fall Out Boy

#8. Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Matthieu Ricard

#9. I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.

Seimone Augustus

#10. She strove for poised composure, despite feeling like a powerless pawn in a despicable game of human chess, played for the amusement of those who enjoyed tragic endings at the expense of someone else's happiness - no - their very existence.

Collette Cameron

#11. Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?

Patrick McGrath

#12. Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Alphonse Karr

#13. My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

Seth Godin

#14. If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

Will Smith

#15. It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.

Steve Maraboli

#16. Never tie your happiness to the tail of someone else's kite.

Beth Hoffman

#17. There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life
happiness, freedom, and peace of mind
are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Peyton C. March

#18. The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.

Oprah Winfrey

#19. Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve!

Shannon L. Alder

#20. You do care a little for me, I know ... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now ... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.

E. M. Forster

#21. Love is the only antidote for the insanity of this world. And the funny thing about love is that when someone loves you, it doesn't necessarily make you feel better; but when you love someone else, it does.

Frederick Lenz

#22. That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

Wally Lamb

#23. Personal happiness is so important, most choose to let someone else take care of it.

Terry Rossio

#24. The lower your self-esteem, the more apt you are to believe that someone else holds the key to your happiness.

Helen Hemphill

#25. Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

Sir Harry Lauder

#26. Uplift & Inspire, do not be envious of others success. You are given the same hours in a day. Make it worthwhile! Instead of focusing on what someone else is doing, pay attention to how you're living and make the best of life

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#27. We must endeavor to be whole, whether in or out of a relationship, basing happiness on our own internal resources rather than relying on someone else to full the perceived gaps in our lives.

Shane Eric Mathias

#28. Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn.

Michael J. Fox

#29. Never put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket." These

Adam Rockman

#30. I was here for Meghan. Because I loved my princess and I wanted her to be happy. Even if her happiness meant she was with someone else. Even if that someone else was my arch rival. I wanted her to be happy.

Julie Kagawa

#31. Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?

Bill Walton

#32. Believe in yourself and be the source of joy in someone else's life.

Amit Ray

#33. The best way to be happy is to make someone else happy.

Debasish Mridha

#34. We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else.

Arthur Japin

#35. Things as I knew them were just props.My happiness needed to come from me.I could build my own home,make a future for myself.Not rely on someone else to come along and magically make me feel like I had worth,as if I belonged.I could be strong on my own.

Kylie Scott

#36. Happiness is love's outcome, never its motive. Where someone is loved he is an end in himself and certainly not a means toward something else. It is therefore of love's essence, wherever it is found, that the loved one seem precious, beautiful, and worthy of love.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#37. There's no more happiness," Leo said roughly. "There's no peace in any damn corner of my life. She took it all with her. For pity's sake, Amelia ... go meddle in someone else's affairs, and leave me the hell alone.

Lisa Kleypas

#38. If you take your happiness and put it in someone's hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness.

Miguel Ruiz

#39. Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.

Raheel Farooq

#40. I learned a long time ago not to put my happiness in someone else's hands because you can never trust them not to drop it.

Nyrae Dawn

#41. Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

Fulton J. Sheen

#42. I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.

Amy Bloom

#43. Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

Isaac Asimov

#44. But who have the ability to know what will fit into a new individual? And who can say to someone else what happiness looks like, who can say what someone else wants to be?

Bjorn Afzelius

#45. If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn't worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy.

Kristen Crockett

#46. Remember that the one person who can make you joyous and happy is YOU! You do not have to put the key to your own happiness in someone else's pocket!

Sanchita Pandey

#47. When my own happiness was a mystery to me, what hope did I have of being instrumental in someone else's?

Alexis Hall

#48. Happiness is your responsibility, don't saddle someone else with it, don't postpone it until conditions suit your needs, and don't surrender it when you notice something you don't approve of.

D.S. Luca

#49. Someone else's idea of happiness was a lot easier to attain than a happiness I could not envision and didn't think I deserved.

Liza Palmer

#50. Being in control of your own destiny is a myth - and wouldn't be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it's still okay to feel responsible for someone else's.

Michael J. Fox

#51. Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only YOU can be responsible for it. You have to invest in yourself, or no one else will.

Stacy Charter

#52. I will never let someone else's opinion define my reality.

Steve Maraboli

#53. You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.

Greg Iles

#54. Do you think there's ever any joy for people who carve their happiness out of someone else's hurt?

Bette Lee Crosby

#55. Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.

Paulo Coelho

#56. If Death could grant you a wish, you would use it for someone else? Trade your happiness for someone else's?

Robin LaFevers

#57. But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy.

Stefan Zweig

#58. She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either
a purely human one.

Cassandra Clare

#59. Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

Earl Nightingale

#60. The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

#61. Life is about creating your own world, your own joy.
Life is not about living in someone else's world or playing with someone else's toy.

Debasish Mridha

#62. Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

Brian Tracy

#63. Every person has a right to be unhappy, to suffer in peace without someone else telling her that she is acting like a spoiled brat. Without a certain someone telling her constantly that her life is the stuff that everyone else dreams about. Happiness is not a one-size-fits-all kind of thing.

Suzanne Selfors

#64. I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Marilynne Robinson

#65. Happiness can be a cruel thing in the face of someone else's grief.

Sasha Gould

#66. America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

Jonathan Haidt

#67. It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.

Nicholas Sparks

#68. No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people,
if you don't love yourself then it can never be enough.

Shannon Kaiser

#69. Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else.

Zig Ziglar

#70. My best advice for finding inner happiness is to reach outside yourself, to use your talents and brains and personality to make life better for someone else.

Nick Vujicic

#71. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.

Maya Angelou

#72. Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.

Sharon Salzberg

#73. Happiness comes in many forms - in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It's okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.

Lucas Scott

#74. She resolved every day to:
1. Do something for someone else.
2. Do something for myself
3. Do something I don't want to do that needs doing.
4. Do a physical exercise
5. Do a mental exercise
6. Do an original prayer that always includes counting my blessings

Marci Shimoff

#75. Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy.

Sharon Salzberg

#76. Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

Byron Katie

#77. Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.

M. Leighton

#78. I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow.

Jewel

#79. Try not to be self-conscious [ ... ] or so critical. Don't mope around looking for someone else to make you happy, and remember that the vast majority of homosexuals are looking for a superman to love and find it very difficult to love anyone merely human, which we unfortunately happen to be.

Andrew Holleran

#80. If your happiness depends on someone else, all they have to do is pull the rug out from under you and you're miserable.

Lawrence Crane

#81. It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.

Fernando Pessoa

#82. Never tie your happiness to the end of someone else's kite.

Beth Hoffman

#83. We tend to think that it's up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn't ever work, and for the following reason:
If you have a hard time knowing what it is you really need, then how on earth can you logically expect someone else to know?

Amanda Butterworth

#84. Optimists are intrinsically happier and happiness breeds further happiness. Light a candle rather than curse the darkness and do not wait for someone else to light it; do it yourself.

Natasha Murtagh

#85. The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we're unable to share in someone else's pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person's happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy

Sharon Salzberg

#86. Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#87. This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.

Elizabeth Scott

#88. Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#89. Happiness is not squeezing yourself into someone else's box.

Dayanara Ryelle

#90. When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

Maya Angelou

#91. Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to be someone else you will be miserable.

Apoorve Dubey

#92. What else is love, but to give someone else happiness when you know your own is impossible?

Garon Whited

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

Confucius

#94. Don't ever put your happiness in someone else's hands. They'll drop it. They'll drop it every time.

Christopher Barzak

#95. Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

Diane Ackerman

#96. our culture encourages you [with an anxious attachment style] to believe that many of your needs are illegitimate. But whether they are legitimate or not for someone else is beside the point. They are essential for your happiness, and that is what's important.

Amir Levine

#97. Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else's success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Sharon Salzberg

#98. Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

Bill Bailey

#99. You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

Jennifer O'Neill