If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.
Happiness is very simple and minimal.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.