Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of others. We’re running a different race.

You are in charge of your own happiness; you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own happiness in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

John Stuart Mill
1806-1873

No one may force anyone to be happy according to his manner of imagining the well-being of other men; instead, everyone may seek his happiness in the way that seems good to him as long as he does not infringe on the freedom of others to pursue a similar purpose, when such freedom may coexist with the freedom of every other man according to a possible and general law.

You want it your own way. You’d just like to have a little peace; you’d like to have a little happiness, you know, just “gimme a break!” But the more you think that way, the more you try to get life to come out so that it will always suit you, the more your fear of other people and what’s outside your room grows.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

For me, there is no happiness without freedom, and freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves.

If you can get out of your own way, you won't be in anyone else's.

Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life.