Top 1200 Choose To Be Happy Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.

I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.

I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want to be happy it only makes sense to discipline ourselves to choose our attitudes, to think positively and to be hopeful.

You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way of Lao Tzu. How to drop the mind? - don't choose! That's why he never prescribes any meditation, because then there is no need for any meditation.

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.

There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to

The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience.

I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

When you feel happy, really happy, it somehow seems that you've always been happy and that you'll always be happy. The same is often true when you feel sad, or lonely, or depressed, or broke, or sick, or scared. Something, perhaps, to remember.

When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is special in being happy - trees are happy, birds are happy, animals are happy, children are happy. What is special in that? It is just the usual thing in existence. Existence is made of the stuff called happiness. Just look! - can't you see these trees?...so happy. Can't you see the birds singing?...so happily. Happiness has nothing special in it. Happiness is a very ordinary thing.

But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.

I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.

I choose to hunt, and I choose to fish. Everything I've done has been totally legal.

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.

One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

I just feel at Paris, I will have more chances compared to Madrid. I'm French and I choose a French team. People must be happy to keep a French player in the league.

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.