This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.
When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artist, always be happy and jovial and smiling. I was the happy nice girl, and I am the happy nice girl, but I have my moments, too.
People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.
I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'
Do whatever makes you happy. Whatever makes you happy is good, right and holy. Your happiness is the only measuring rod. Your happiness is the only truth. Everything else is false.
The laws governed people’s happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.
Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy.
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.
If my son is happy, then I am happy.
The only way to be happy is to prepare your mind to be happy.
To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve.
Shared Happiness gives real Happiness
Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.
Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on
It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person.
We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength
