Be Happy Quotes

You want to please society. You want to be happy. You want to be well liked. You want to be held in high esteem and be respected. These are real things. You want respect from your peers, respect from your loved ones; you want to be looked up to for your achievements and your accomplishments. All of this requires conformity in some form or another.

~ Thomas Jane

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

~ Thomas Cochrane

What is happiness other than a negotiation between reality and your dreams? It's understanding that you give up something for something else. I feel like that's been how I've been trying to be happy, although in my DNA there's more of a depressed person.

~ Mark Ruffalo

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

~ Thucydides

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

~ Ariana Grande

For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

~ Lenny Kravitz

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

~ Sophia Bush

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

~ Dan Savage

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

~ Alan Alda

You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.

~ Maisie Williams

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

~ Donna Leon

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

~ Joyce Meyer

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

~ Samuel Johnson

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

~ Josh Hartnett

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

~ Omar Khayyám

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

~ Albert Einstein

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

~ William E. Gladstone

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

~ Gary Vaynerchuk

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

~ Swami Sivananda

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

~ Saint Augustine

To forget oneself is to be happy.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

~ Wendy Raquel Robinson

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

~ Immanuel Kant

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

~ Taylor Swift

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

~ Ernie Banks

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

~ Julia Roberts

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.

~ Joyce Meyer

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

~ Ana Ivanovic

You can be happy where you are.

~ Joel Osteen

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

~ Alice Walker

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

~ Herbert Read

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

~ Robert Staughton Lynd

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

~ D. L. Hughley

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

~ Voltaire

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

~ Joyce Meyer

What's revolting is the body-positivity movement. What's revolting is this idea now that you can tell women they'll be happy and healthy at any size. Why? Because it tells women that you can be fat, and you can be unattractive, and you can be happy anyway. That's a lie.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio