HAPPY QUOTES

• Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
  ~ John Dryden ~
• God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children
  ~ Mary Howitt ~
• People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• Never ignore the messages of a person whose intention is only to see you happy, understand their feelings.
  ~ Gracy Sahota ~
• We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
  ~ Walter Savage Landor ~
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
  ~ Charles Kingsley ~
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
  ~ Charles Kingsley ~
• Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
  ~ Dante Alighieri ~
• The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
  ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
• The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
  ~ Ogden Nash ~
• Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
  ~ Edmund Spenser ~
• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
  ~ John Ruskin ~
• I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.
  ~ D. H. Lawrence ~
• I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
  ~ Dame Edith Sitwell ~
• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
  ~ John Dryden ~
• Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family
  ~ Joachim Du Bellay ~
• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
  ~ Ovid ~
• 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 Keith Chesterton ~
• Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.
  ~ Virgil ~
• Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
  ~ William Butler Yeats ~
• Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
  ~ Christopher Morley ~
• Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.
  ~ Christopher Morley ~
• And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury.
  ~ William Blake ~
• A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
  ~ Lawrence Welk ~
• People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
  ~ Edward Norton ~
• I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!
  ~ Josh Hutcherson ~
• I know this sounds generic, but I'm so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog.
  ~ Fergie ~
• Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
  ~ Octavia Butler ~
• When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
  ~ Emily Blunt ~
• This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.
  ~ Jason Mraz ~
• Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• 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 ~
• Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  ~ Julia Child ~
• The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  ~ Julia Child ~
• The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  ~ Julia Child ~
• The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  ~ Julia Child ~
• Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
  ~ Clarence Darrow ~
• I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.
  ~ Paula Deen ~
• I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.
  ~ Paula Deen ~
• I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
  ~ Neil Young ~
• No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
  ~ Christian Nestell Bovee ~
• I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
  ~ Princess Diana ~
• When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
  ~ Princess Diana ~
• I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
  ~ Princess Diana ~
• What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.
  ~ Jeremy Renner ~
• I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.
  ~ Britney Spears ~
• But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
  ~ Paul Theroux ~
• Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.
  ~ Roberto Cavalli ~
• Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.
  ~ Roberto Cavalli ~
• Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
  ~ James Hillman ~
• It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?
  ~ Jean Claude Van Damme ~
• I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.
  ~ Kelly Clarkson ~
• If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!
  ~ Kelly Clarkson ~
• Men want to make women happy.
  ~ Jerry Seinfeld ~
• If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.
  ~ Chris Evans ~
• If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.
  ~ Chris Evans ~
• Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
  ~ Golda Meir ~
• Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
  ~ Golda Meir ~
• I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
  ~ Albert Ellis ~
• Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
  ~ Meryl Streep ~
• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
  ~ Zoe Saldana ~
• I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.
  ~ Fiona Apple ~
• There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.
  ~ Kristen Wiig ~
• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
  ~ Johnny Carson ~
• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
  ~ Johnny Carson ~
• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
  ~ Johnny Carson ~
• Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
  ~ Barbara Ehrenreich ~
• Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
  ~ Ann Landers ~
• I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.
  ~ Jet Li ~
• My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
  ~ Jet Li ~
• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
  ~ Adam Smith ~
• To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.
  ~ Michael Haneke ~