Happy Quotes

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

~ Joan Jett

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

~ Hamlin Garland

A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

~ Walter Kirn

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

~ Plato

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

~ Alexander Pope

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

~ Alexander Pope

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

~ David Brin

I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.

~ Maeve Binchy

I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.

~ David Thewlis

I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

~ Ian Mcshane

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

~ Derek Jacobi

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

~ Antonio Tabucchi

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

~ Anita Brookner

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

~ Samuel Dash

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 will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

~ Nicole Richie

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

~ Isabel Allende

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

~ Josefa Iloilo

I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!

~ Selena Gómez

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

~ Pete Wentz

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

~ Chris Pine

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

~ Ernest Hemingway

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

~ Mary Shelley

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

~ Alastair Campbell

I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.

~ Billy Collins

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

~ Anna Akhmatova

The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

~ Angelo Scola

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

I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

~ Carl Paladino

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

~ Solon

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

~ Thomas Paine

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 was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

~ Rick Springfield

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

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

~ Johnny Otis

My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

~ Nancy Garden

Because of people like that guy in San Francisco who told me it changed his life, 'Teen Witch' is my most favorite thing I've ever done. I see how happy it makes people, and that makes me happy. The great thing is that no one realized it was going to become all these things when we were making it. We thought we were making a very serious movie.

~ Robyn Lively