How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be happy”? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don’t think so. I’ll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you’re willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.

Dr Phil McGraw

More quotes by Dr Phil McGraw

If she doesn’t acknowledge what happened, then how can we trust that she is going to be different in the future?

Dr Phil McGraw

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

Dr Phil McGraw

There is power in forgiveness.

Dr Phil McGraw

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

Dr Phil McGraw

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you “deserve” the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

Dr Phil McGraw

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

Dr Phil McGraw

More quotes about Happiness

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

Leo Tolstoy

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epitectus

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Samuel Johnson

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Thomas Szasz

Choose happiness, not success, as your life’s goal. If you become successful but aren’t happy, then what is the point?

Haemin Sunim

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Henry Youngman

I love people who make me laugh.

Audrey Hepburn

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

William Ewart Gladstone

Don’t worry, be happy!

Bobby McFerrin

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

Henry Ford