Just Want To Be Happy Quotes

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

I just want to be happy. You know what I’m saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

I don’t spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself – and if other people like it, that’s great.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

I’d love to have a lifetime career. If you look at people like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, people who have been there forever and who still make relevant music that people want to listen to – that would be amazing. I hope to be able to do that. But above all else, I feel like I just want to be happy.

I don’t know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

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.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.