Quotes About Wanting To Be Happy

#1. 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

#2. There are worse addictions than wanting to be happy.

Joshua McCune

#3. 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

#4. It is because we know happiness that we want to be happy, and since nothing is more certain than our wanting to be happy (beatum esse velle), our notion of happiness guides us in determining the respective goods that then became objects of our desires.

Hannah Arendt

#5. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be happy and believing you deserve to be happy.

Karina Halle

#6. 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

#7. Wanting to be happy is not stupid.

Lauren DeStefano

#8. In Life you have to choose between wanting to be right or to be happy

Denis Gorce-Bourge

#9. She taught me to love by loving me, and I learned - rather slowly; I wasn't too good a pupil, being set in my ways and lacking her natural talent. But I did learn. Learned that supreme happiness lies in wanting to keep another person safe and warm and happy, and being privileged to try.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Because I want you to be happy. With or without me, whatever it takes." Theo sighs. "That's the difference between wanting someone and loving them.

Claudia Gray

#11. My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

Beatrice Sparks

#12. Part of loving someone is wanting them to be happy, even if it hurts you.

Leah Raeder

#13. [Louise Colet was a p]roto-feminist who committed the sin of wanting to make someone else happy.

Julian Barnes

#14. There is an urge to believe that getting something you want will make you happy. The secret is to be happy without wanting anything. Is that so hard?

Chloe Thurlow

#15. Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

Sam Levenson

#16. You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.

Demi Moore

#17. I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

Salman Rushdie

#18. You can be happy instantly by wanting what you already have.

Bob Schwartz

#19. The wise begin with whys." Everyone wants to be happy, healthy, and successful, but wanting is rarely an effective strategy for getting. Those who overcome the temptations of mediocrity and achieve everything they want in life have an extraordinarily compelling why that drives them. They

Hal Elrod

#20. I don't think you comprehend the depth of my feeling for you. It goes beyond wanting to be near you, or protect you. I want you to be happy, and I want you to be treated with respect.

Sylvain Reynard

#21. Love is wanting others to be happy.

Dalai Lama

#22. I thought of how much they all wanted to be free; how they went mad wanting their freedom; I began to wonder whether it was I that was mad because I was happy to be bound; whether I was alone in knowing that I could not live without the clamour of the voices within me.

Amitav Ghosh

#23. False love is just wanting someone else, but true love is wanting someone else to be happy.

Menna Van Praag

#24. While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Samuel Dash

#25. There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.

Anne Hathaway

#26. In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

Dalai Lama

#27. Happy is measuring your life against the options and not wanting to change it. It's getting the best of a series of bargains, bad or otherwise.

Chaz Brenchley

#28. So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

William Hazlitt

#29. I'm sure that's when you really know you are happy - when you wake up wanting to embrace your future, rather than trying to squirm away from your past.

Peter James

#30. 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

#31. it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.

Jim Dodge

#32. Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.

Mooji

#33. I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

Oscar Isaac

#34. People haven't stopped believing in love. They haven't stopped wanting to be in love. They just don't believe in a happy ending anymore. They still believe in love, and falling in love, but they know now that ... they know that romances almost never end as well as they begin.

Gregory David Roberts

#35. When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

Karen Salmansohn

#36. When I stopped wanting my New Year's Eve to be perfect, to bring in the New Year right, is when it started working out right. When I was young, I was always looking for the best party to be at, to ring in the New Year, and I always ended up in the car going, "Happy New Year."

Hilary Swank

#37. As a child, I was happy without wanting to be. I mean, I never thought about whether I wanted to be happy again, I just was.

Nicolas Barreau

#38. If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do ...

Tony Parsons

#39. Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.

Swami Satchidananda

#40. Happiness is wanting what you have.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#41. The ones that always, always want something better, will never find better.

Anthony Liccione

#42. Meanwhile, life passes on and time runs out. The culture of wanting more simply for the sake of more can occupy a person for an entire lifetime. But in the end, life is over. It terminates for the beggar and the affluent just the same, whether one is old or young, rich or poor, happy or sad.

Hamza Yusuf

#43. He looked at her. There was something about her. When he was with her he felt happy, excited; when he was apart from her he found himself wanting to be with her again.

Nicole Mones

#44. She thought about all the things she would like to say to him. Thank you for wanting to defend me. Thank you for thinking Rupert is a rogue. Thank you for being a man of integrity. Oh, Lord Hamlin, if you were mine, I'd make you so happy. Rose stifled a laugh at the stupid, outrageous thought.

Melanie Dickerson

#45. I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I'm perfectly happy that they are doing things online, reading there as opposed to traditional print magazines.

John Scalzi

#46. The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Plutarch

#47. I find myself wanting to study his lower abdomen, where the muscles are like stepping stones leading the way down to Mr. Happy.

Kristen Callihan

#48. I can't say I was happy with your mother. I can't say I enjoyed almost twenty years of being judged by her and always found wanting.

Joe Hill

#49. I feel like I'm as mischievous as you can be while still never wanting to hurt anyone's feelings. I really want everyone to be happy all the time, but I do like seeing what new things you can talk about.

Megan Amram