Happy Quotes

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

~ Lillian Gish

Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

~ Ben Parr

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

~ Juhi Chawla

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

~ Claire Tomalin

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

~ Amitabh Bachchan

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

~ Maria Sharapova

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

I love dress shopping, and I love talking about the wedding food. That's what makes me happy.

~ Christine Teigen

I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!

~ Candice Swanepoel

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

~ John Paul Dejoria

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

~ David Duchovny

A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing as saving the world.

~ Tyler Cowen

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

~ Elsa Schiaparelli

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

~ Adoniram Judson

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

~ Albert Camus

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

~ Clarence Darrow

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

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

~ Robin Ince

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

~ Jessica Lange

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

~ Taylor Swift

I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.

~ Alicia Keys

I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake.

~ Elle Fanning

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

I am happy to continue with my journey through time.

~ Mary

Tonight, tonight we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president. Standing here, standing here as my mother's daughter, and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come.

~ Hillary Clinton

What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.

~ Irina Shayk

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

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

~ H. L. Mencken

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

~ Angela Merkel

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

~ Connie Sellecca

One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.

~ Gretchen Rubin

For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.

~ Busta Rhymes

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

~ James Sinegal

I like to stay happy, and I like to live life light and make the best of life.

~ Ciara

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

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

~ Zinedine Zidane

I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.

~ Eric Idle

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

~ Yanni

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

~ Jack Ma