Trying To Be Happy Quotes:

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

- Jacques Prevert

topic: Trying, Example, Trying To Be Happy

I would probably advise myself 10 years ago not to take life too seriously and to just try to be happy.

- Lara Stone

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Trying, Trying To Be Happy, Advise

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

- Mark Twain

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Sorrow And Happiness, Joy And Sadness

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

- Edith Wharton

source: "Ethan Frome".

topic: Happiness, Happy, Women, Truly Happy, Self Happiness

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Happiness, Believe, Inner Peace, Others Happiness, Make Others Happy

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

- George Carlin

topic: Fun, Over You, Trying, Trying To Be Happy

Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

- Shakti Gawain

topic: Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers, Happier Life, Inspirational Career

Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy.

- Leona Lewis

source: Song: Happy

topic: Pain, Trying, Care, Trying To Be Happy

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

- Sam Levenson

source: Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.83, Open Road Media

topic: Being Happy, Cynical, Trying, Trying To Be Happy

To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

- Martha Beck

topic: Stars, Believe, Perfect, North Star, Trying To Be Happy

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

- Jaggi Vasudev

topic: Happiness, Spiritual, Humanity, Trying To Be Happy

Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.

- Radhanath Swami

topic: Trying, World, Illusion, Trying To Be Happy

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Trying, Sun, Bright Days, God's Presence, Trying To Be Happy

So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want...So then try (to be happy).

- Elizabeth Scott

topic: Trying, Want, Matter, Trying To Be Happy

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

- Anna Held

topic: Trying, Use, Given, Trying To Be Happy

I will always try to be happy. I don’t think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it’s like to be in that very, very dark place. It’s not romantic. Not even a little.

- Sarah Silverman

source: Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.155, Faber & Faber

topic: Dark, Thinking, People, Trying To Be Happy

We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

- Rajneesh

topic: Happiness, Mistake, Effort, Trying To Be Happy

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Hair, Flames, Red Hair, Trying To Be Happy

It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. It inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness. It's leading people down a rabbit hole that actually doesn't exist. So people think like, "Yo, once I get this money and these cars and stuff, I'ma be so happy." But that's not true. And I feel like that's why it's very important to educate people on different things while you are actually on social media.

- Jaden Smith

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Thinking, Media, Car, Rabbit Holes, Trying To Be Happy

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.

- Matthew Kelly

source: Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.22, BookBaby

topic: Simple, Hands, Catholic, Bewitched, Trying To Be Happy

Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me.

- Taya Kyle

topic: Giving Up, Trying, Moments, Giving Up Control, Trying To Be Happy

Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry all the time. No reason to trying to be happy; it's not possible. You're a victim. Victim of what? Well, you're a victim of derision. Well, you're a victim of America. You're a victim of America's past, or you're a victim of religion. You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. You're a victim of something. The Democrats got one for you. If you want to be a victim, call 'em up.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Past, America, Trying, Derision, Trying To Be Happy

Tonight I am going with my wife to a Democratic party, where we're going to...try to be happy.

- Joe Lieberman

topic: Party, Wife, Trying, Trying To Be Happy

Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.

- Margaret Cho

topic: Morning, Good Day, Trying, Wherever You Are, Have A Good Day

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker

Early in life, I decided that I would not be overcome by events. My philosophy has been that regardless of the circumstances, I shall not be vanquished, but will try to be happy. Life is not easy for any of us. But it is a continual challenge, and it is up to us to be cheerful - and to be strong, so that those who depend on us may draw strength from our example.

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Strong, Philosophy, Happy Life, Trying To Be Happy

Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

topic: Running, Vanity, Expression, Adequacy, Specifications

Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.

- Wayne Coyne

topic: Mind, Trying, Lucky, Happenstance, Actually Living

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

- Olympia Dukakis

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Trying, Honest, Trying To Be Happy

I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it's easier for me to stay alive than die, I guess that's how it's going to be, so I guess I should try to be happy.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

topic: Suicidal, Mean, Trying, Inertia, Trying To Be Happy

I'm not so stupid as to believe that you've completely forgotten about your former boyfriend. I know you think there are others here more suited for me and this life, and I wouldn't want you to rush into trying to be happy with any of this. I just... I just want to know if it's possible.

- Kiera Cass

topic: Stupid, Believe, Thinking, Trying To Be Happy

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

- Elizabeth Scott

source: Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

topic: Trying, Ink, Unspoken Words, Trying To Be Happy

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Loneliness, Choices, Trying, Trying To Be Happy