When children have grieving parents it’s also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy. – Simon Callow
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. – Tracy Kidder
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness. – William E. Gladstone
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you’re truly wireless. – Ted Turner
I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them. – Virat Kohli
Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing. – Venus Williams
When we obey God, we’re not doing it for God… we’re doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we’re happy. – Victoria Osteen
Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed. – Vidya Balan
It was a fairly normal happy upbringing. Not a lot of money, but a lot of love. – Sonny Bill Williams
Success doesn’t mean that you are healthy, success doesn’t mean that you’re happy, success doesn’t mean that you’re rested. Success really doesn’t mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good. – Victoria Principal
I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times. – Taylor Swift
Seeing my friends succeed, find love, or just feeling content makes me feel unconditionally happy. – Troian Bellisario
Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison – happy endings aren’t at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them. – Stephen Graham Jones
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds. – Thor Heyerdahl
Scripts didn’t exist during my time in Bollywood, or, at least, I was never given one. I don’t want to act at all and am happy in my cave. – Twinkle Khanna
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy. – Susan Downey
There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal. – Troy Polamalu
Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren’t… But I must live my life. – Thomas Hearns
The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you’re only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, ‘Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody’s listening to me and I got the approval that I need.’ – T. J. Miller
I’m very lucky, I’m happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don’t have any regrets whatsoever. – Van Morrison
All you care about with your parents is that they are happy, and my mother is exceptionally happy at the moment, and I’ve always adored my stepfather, and he’s always been a kind and good and lovely man. – Tom Parker Bowles
I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama’s boy. It was a pretty happy childhood. – Woody Harrelson
I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It’s like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn’t great for a happy life. – Shirley Manson