"If you want to be happy, be happy."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Want Quotes #Want To Be Happy Quotes

“A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.”

Source : Katie Couric (2011). “The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives”, p.288, Random House
“one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is.”
“I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.”
“Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.”
“I started out old, but I have to say that I've been very lucky to work consistently since I started. I've really never been out of work.”
“The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?”
“Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.”
“The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart.”

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