Happy Quotes

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

~ Ovid

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

~ Honoré De Balzac

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

~ Lynn Johnston

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

~ John Burroughs

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

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

~ Jamie Campbell Bower

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

~ Viktor E. Frankl

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

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

~ Paulo Coelho

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.

~ Gretchen Rubin

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.

~ Sushant Singh Rajput

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

~ George Harrison

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

~ Richard Gere

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

~ Taraji P. Henson

I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family.

~ Shilpa Shetty

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

~ James Allen

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

~ Herbert Read

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

~ Walter Savage Landor

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

~ Dennis Christopher

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

~ Leslie Caron

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

~ Thomas Moore

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

~ Arnold Bennett

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

~ Jack Gleeson

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?

~ Agnes Martin

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

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

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

~ Audrey Hepburn

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.

~ Ishmael Beah

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

~ Erich Fromm

I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.

~ Cameron Díaz

Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait.

~ Richard Branson