It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food.
The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.
Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.