Quotes on Happy

I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it.

If I'm not hungry and I'm busy, I am quite happy to skip a meal. It's informal intermittent fasting. I feel strongly that this is one of the strongest areas of longevity research.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.

A child comes to see his father play, have fun, make people happy, and what does he see? He sees people booing his father for being black. They make monkey noises. They throw bananas at his teammates and all that.

You have to have a sound that inspires you to play because, if not, you won't be able to make the sound you have work. You won't be able to make magic with it if you're not happy with it, so it's important that you at least please yourself to the level where you can just relax and be an artist.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.

People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Obviously, I want my kids to be happy, and I believe that they can be super successful at whatever they want to do, but don't make the successful part more important than the process of doing it. Especially if it's an artistic endeavor.

If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

I am going to be happy regardless where I am at as long as I am playing basketball with some guys that have the same common goal that I have, and that is to win.

The best things in life aren't things.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I'll still be fly.

I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.