“I wanna be your happiness.
I wanna be your common sense pain.”
Conor Oberst (1980) American musician
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Conor Oberst (2008)
“We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.”
"Faith No More" - (CMJ New Music Monthly, April 1995)
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“At any given moment the choice to be happy is present — we just have to choose to be happy.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 19
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Context: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Il faut rire avant que d'être heureux, de peur de mourir sans avoir ri.
Aphorism 63; Variant translation: We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Jean de La Bruyère, in Du Coeur
Misattributed
“If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.”
Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host
Bob Ross: Beauty Is Everywhere. Collection 1: Ep. 8 "Wintertime Blues"; The Joy of Painting Season 20: Episode 3 Bob Ross: Winter in Pastel.