Making A Choice To Be Happy Quotes & Sayings

RVM Thoughts for Today
Do you know that you can CHOOSE to be Happy or Unhappy? happiness doesn't just Happen ! It is a Choice you make. — R.v.m.

Fortunately, being mindful of family time - making a commitment to be there physically and mentally and enjoy life while doing so - makes memories possible. We control a lot less about our children's outcomes in life than we think. They are their own people. But one thing parents do shape is whether kids remember their childhoods as happy. Creating a happy home is a conscious choice, as is creating a happy marriage. — Laura Vanderkam

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music ... — Grant Evans

It is the rare - maybe even nonexistent - politician who will admit this, but number one on the politicians to-do list is always to get reelected. Nothing else comes close. The economy, the stock market, the war on terrorism ... NOTHING comes ahead of getting reelected. Staying in power is job number one. — Neal Boortz

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it. — Shay Carl

As you abide in Christ, you will have strength for today's trials as well as for all tomorrow's challenges. — Elizabeth George

How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice. — Robert Moment

He needed to wear that bell around his neck and randomly intone, "Unclean," to warn people. — Andrea Speed

It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences. — Samuel I. Prime

Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right? — Donna Lynn Hope

They say certain people aren't good soldiers because if they're in a foxhole all night - you know, if you're creative and smart, you're thinking about all the different ways someone is going to blow your head off. But if you're not that smart, you're just like chilling out. And I feel like that in life. I'm just in the foxhole all fucking day thinking about everything that's going to go wrong in every possible way. — Judd Apatow

Stories are invented as you go along... — Orson Scott Card

Tell me my heart beats a war drum
that my eyes are not just armies
but my spine
is a harpoon. — Buddy Wakefield

A relationship will either make the majority of your life happy or miserable. It is important to take your time and make sure that it is a wise choice before making a commitment. — Pamela Cummins

My happiness doesn't rely on other people. It doesn't depend on them needing me, wanting me, approving of me. It's inside me, just where it was when I was little and My Little Pony reigned supreme, before life got twisted and turned upside down, before
everyone else moved on and left me behind. Somehow I lost the power to be happy, but I'm taking it back. Starting today. Today, I choose me. — Mandy Hubbard

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too. — Nas

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute ... — Michelle Moran

For some reason I didn't believe it. I don't know why. Maybe it was because my father was the kind of person who told himself things over and over until he believed them, who could justify almost anything. What I wanted was for it to really be okay. I wanted him to really not care, to maybe even be happy about it. Instead he was acting like I was making a bad career choice, like I was passing up an English degree at Fairmont in favor of a bartending certificate at the local community college. — Nick Burd

They're not coming back the same, are they?"
"What?"
"Them," she said. "Dawson and Daemon and Dee. They're not going to come back the same, are they? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

In my approaching old age, I am now supposed to share with you what life has taught me, and in the end to encapsulate for you what is the meaning of life. From where I am now, I find that these conundrums are easily answered. First, life teaches us that, whether we perceive it as predestined or as random, it is beyond any person's control. Second, there is no template for the meaning of life. Instead, the meaning of life is what you choose to make it mean. In making your choice, when you reach my age, your journey becomes an affirmation of the warning that life is a consequence of our moral choices. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

I really am prepared to push Sally for information. I'm dying to know what's put a huge smile on her face and provoked the introduction of scoop neck tops. 'What did you get up to at the weekend, Sal?' I ask casually as I dunk the biscuit tin. I catch her blushing again. I'm definitely onto something here. If she says she's done a cross-stitch and cleaned the windows, I'll hang myself. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground. — Kim Cattrall

After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces. — Francesca Lia Block

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. — Bill Griffith

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you. — Bethenny Frankel

Are the choices you are making going to really make you happy NOW or happy eventually? — Robert Holden