Top 93 What Makes Me Happy Quotes
#1. What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
Taylor Swift
#2. What makes me happy about the show, and what I hope people take away from it is: "Just be yourself." I know that's supremely corny, but I really think that just being honest with yourself and being honest with everyone around you is the best way to live.
Sarah Steele
#3. I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything, it's what makes me happy.
Kristin Chenoweth
#4. You see, I have a different nature than he has. What makes me happy I seem to catch out of the sky with both hands; I only hold whatever it is that I love because that is all I can really see.
Jane Bowles
#5. If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.
Lights
#6. It's fun, working with different people, everybody works differently. When I have time off from music, I want to make other music. That's what I do, that's what's fun, that's what makes me happy.
Chino Moreno
#7. What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
Seth MacFarlane
#8. I mean it. If i figure out what makes me happy, i'm not going to waste any more time. I'm just going to grab it. I'm just going to do it.
Rainbow Rowell
#9. The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'
Courteney Cox
#10. Grabbing his hand, I stepped close and placed a hand over his racing heart. You are what makes me happy. I can't live a life that you're not in, Kash. I've already tried it once before, it didn't work.
Molly McAdams
#11. For me, my life goal is to be in a position where I can wear pajamas 24 hours a day. That's what makes me happy.
Lena Dunham
#12. That's how you're defining right and wrong? By what makes me happy?"
Pride lit his face as he nodded.
Oh Jesus. "Walker, you can't do that."
"Why not?"
"Because I shouldn't be the center of your life!"
His voice was gentle, a little confused. "But you are.
Rowan McBride
#13. I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.
Chamique Holdsclaw
#14. I love dress shopping, and I love talking about the wedding food. That's what makes me happy. If you tell me to do a guest list, I cry. I hate it.
Chrissy Teigen
#15. I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I'm on tour. It's not only my upbringing, but it helps me stay sane. It helps me remember my purpose and the overall picture of what is important to me and what makes me happy.
Lindsey Stirling
#16. I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.
LeBron James
#17. Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.
Izabel Goulart
#18. I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy.
Lil B
#19. I know I'll never be able control what other people think. It's not my job to convince others of who I am. My only job is to be who I am. All I can do is find what makes me happy, and live it.
Jen Wilde
#20. My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.
Jhene Aiko
#21. I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
Demi Moore
#22. So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.
Larry Ellison
#23. I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.
Iris Apfel
#24. This is what makes me happy: Remembering where I put my house keys ...
Art Buchwald
#25. I am so much happier when I am doing the things that make me me, and that's living by my standards and doing the things I love, using my talents, however random they are, to share with other people. That's what makes me happy.
Lindsey Stirling
#26. I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.
Nick Cannon
#28. I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.
Megan Carson
#29. I have a God-given right to pursue happiness, and happiness to me is killing things, skinning them, plucking them, and then having a good meal. What makes me happy is going out and blowing a duck's head off.
Phil Robertson
#30. I wanna work; I love so much making films; I hope I can do one after the other. Being on set is what makes me happy, so ... The more I can, the better.
Alice Braga
#31. When I was 17, I blew out my knee bouldering, and I wasn't able to climb for a year. It was hard for me to have to stay away from what I love and what makes me happy. But it was a wake-up call to take care of my body and not be too reckless.
Chris Sharma
#32. I have been so incredibly blessed, and I just feel like my calling is to be a missionary and share the gospel ... The Lord's given me a platform to stand on and an audience that is listening. I feel like it's so important to share what makes me happy.
Lindsey Stirling
#33. I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn't going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.
LeBron James
#34. What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
FKA Twigs
#35. My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.
Tracy Pollan
#36. I know what makes me happy. I pick the clothes that make me happy - sometimes people like them, sometimes they don't. I try to listen to my own internal guide.
Michelle Obama
#37. I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.
Kim Smith
#38. Composing music is what makes me happy.
L.Joe
#39. I'm like, 'I think I'm just going to wear what makes me happy,' so I'm just really big on wearing things that reflect my personality, like colorful hats and weird shoes and things that I just think are fun.
Lilly Singh
#40. This is what makes me happy: ... Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer ... An evening in bed with a good book ... A good night's sleep ... As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy.
Art Buchwald
#41. And what makes me happy now has changed as well ... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.
Rick Derringer
#42. I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#43. Women? I'm still working on the subject. I haven't finished my studies. I would say I'm so happy that they're around. This is the salt and pepper of life. This is what makes me wake up in the morning - even more than work, really.
Vincent Cassel
#44. Yoh: I'm sorry I can't be with you more.
Haruna: What are you saying, Yoh!! Just looking at your shining profile makes me happy!! Go Yoh!!
Yoh: I didn't say anything!! Really I'm not going to tell you anything anymore.
Haruna: Eh, why!?
Kazune Kawahara
#45. That's what my music does for me. It makes people happy. When I play, I thank the Lord I've never seen someone walk away from a Dick Dale dance not having a good time. That's what it's all about.
Dick Dale
#46. Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#47. Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!
Samuel Johnson
#48. The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I'm much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy.
Jason Collins
#49. I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.
Emma Donoghue
#50. What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#51. My parents taught me to do whatever makes you happy - follow your bliss. That's why I don't make a lot of movies. I'm very meat and potatoes when it comes to work, putting in eight hours each day. I only do what I love.
Mike Myers
#52. Doing what I like to do, the way I like to do it ... makes me happy.
Nakia R. Laushaul
#53. It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
Bernard Berenson
#54. When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I'm at a place in my life and career where I just want to work. It's what I do and it makes me very happy.
John Glover
#55. Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.
Alana Blanchard
#56. What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#57. Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.
Eve Ensler
#58. Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
Henri Rousseau
#59. I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.
Kevin Hart
#60. The music world taught me a lot.It taught me how much happiness it could take from you. J. Cole said it in that interview: People forget their happiness and what makes them happy. Like, what you really wanted to do it for.
Fetty Wap
#61. Everything is worth it. The hard work, the times when you're tired, the times where you're a bit sad ... In the end, it's all worth it because it really makes me happy. There's nothing better than loving what you do.
Aaliyah
#62. I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#63. I don't see the kids and the car seats and all the ways we've changed. What I see is a girl who was wild about a boy, and a bot who loved that girl right back. And it makes me happy to know they're still in there, still inside us, like Russian dolls.
Shauna Niequist
#64. There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
Alan Alda
#65. And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.
Nicolas Cage
#66. Nothing has ever opened my eyes like transcendental meditation has. It makes me calm and happy, and, well, it gives me some peace and quiet in what's a pretty chaotic life!
Hugh Jackman
#67. To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
#68. do more of what makes you happy
Me
#69. What is it about coffee? It's the perfect beverage. It warms me, body and soul. And it makes me insanely happy.
Kim Holden
#70. Waking up next to you is what I like the most, knowing that you belong only to me makes me very happy. Being with you is all I need to be happy.
Auliq Ice
#71. His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.
Elizabeth Spencer
#72. I think Buffett is a better investor than me because he has a better eye toward what makes a great business. And when I find a great business I'm happy to buy it and hold it. Most businesses don't look so great to me.
Seth Klarman
#73. What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
Natalie Dormer
#74. Being of service is something that really makes me happy. Being able to tell young kids about something they might never have known without meeting someone with my experiences is what really what I feel it's all about. I feel that's the only way that you get fulfillment out of life.
Keke Palmer
#75. I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Jim Carrey
#76. I like being done up! I love going to events and wearing fabulous gowns. I like hitting that spot of doing what feels good for me. If it makes other people happy, great; if it doesn't, then that's great, too!
Soledad O'Brien
#77. What does that matter when he makes me happy?" There was an adjustment her mother made then, a slight giving in, a relaxing of her shoulders, as if she wondered for just a moment what that kind of freedom might feel like.
Rae Meadows
#78. Get down to your local swimming pool or your local swimming club, join up and see what it's like. I can guarantee that you're going to meet some great friends. Just being involved in water makes me happy and I'd like to see that transferred across to other people.
Liam Tancock
#79. Love. Yes. That's what I feel for you. Your smile makes me happy and your pain makes me hurt with you. Your unhappiness makes me unhappy. Your body makes me ache and you make me hard with need to be inside you. You are always on my mind and when I am not with you, I want you with me.
Laurann Dohner
#80. I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.
Ranbir Kapoor
#81. All the stuff I don't like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain. Maybe that is what I like best about him, the way he makes me. Not makes me feel, just makes me. I am fun. I am playful. I am game. I feel naturally happy and entirely satisfied.
Gillian Flynn
#82. I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.
Novak Djokovic
#83. My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me with my make up and hair, and just be there to support me in whatever I do. She always makes sure that no matter what, I'm happy in what I'm doing.
Raini Rodriguez
#84. Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.
Bryan White
#85. I wear what I feel and what makes me feel happy.
Estelle
#86. I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.
Martin Henderson
#87. It's easy to say that people focusing on the bad is what makes them miserable. What's not easy is to take a life full of misery and find the joy. While there may be moments of levity, never assume they can make me truly happy.
Leah Alvord
#88. It's like lifting off in an airplane: you're on the ground, on the ground, on the ground... and then you're up, riding on a magical cushion of air and prince of all you survey. That makes me happy, because it's what I was made to do.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#89. Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne
Orna Ross
#90. It's funny the way life works. Sometimes you go around in a weird path to find out exactly what it is that you love to do, and I'm happy that I've sort of discovered something that makes me really happy.
Haylie Duff
#91. I don't have TiVo, but I watch a lot of 'Judge Judy' - it makes me happy about my life when I see what the people on that show do.
Kellan Lutz
#92. What makes a good salesperson? Let me be clear that it's not the person who can talk someone into anything. It's not the hustler who is a smooth talker. The best salespeople are the ones who put themselves in their customer's shoes and provide a solution that makes the customer happy.
Mark Cuban
#93. 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
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