Confucius Quotes

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

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• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Same

• I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Mom

• My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• I like happy endings.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Happy
  • Like
  • Endings

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'

  

  Valerie June
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Song

• Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Happy
  • First
  • Musicians

• I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Happy
  • Peaceful
  • Be Happy

• Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Happy

• My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Happy
  • Enjoy
  • Be Happy

• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• I love feminine soft shades for summers - I like pastels and bright hues, too. I like summer dresses and tank tops; I think they never go out of style. As much as I'm happy with Western wear for red carpet and social dos, I also like Indian ethnic wear for special occasions.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Style

• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Real
  • Happy

• The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Me

• It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • Happy
  • Best

• No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Single

• The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

  

  Cory Booker
  • King
  • Alive
  • Civil Rights

• The kid that showed up (Maddox), that's incredible. I mean, she wasn't even on our radar. It's kind of interesting with us. Probably the best thing that happened to Temple was that their point guard went down, because then our brains went to sleep and we no longer focused on the guards. It was confusion, at the very least.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Kid
  • Brains
  • Guard

• I chose my house because I loved the fact that there was a really busy road with lots of things to stare at.

  

  Kate Williams
  • House
  • Road
  • Loved

• To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

  

  Confucius
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