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 ~
• The hardest fight I had to win was living my life on my own terms, finding what makes me happy, building my own team; even when the family was bonded by blood and tribe.
  ~ Omokpariola Elshalom ~
• You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.
  ~ Rod Stewart ~
• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
  ~ Norman Vincent Peale ~
• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
  ~ Norman Vincent Peale ~
• I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.
  ~ Tori Spelling ~
• I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.
  ~ Avril Lavigne ~
• I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.
  ~ Liza Minnelli ~
• From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
  ~ Dirk Benedict ~
• I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
  ~ Clay Aiken ~
• Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
  ~ Tony Visconti ~
• Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
  ~ Tony Visconti ~
• Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
  ~ Tony Visconti ~
• 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 ~
• When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
  ~ Anna Chlumsky ~
• Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.
  ~ Anna Chlumsky ~
• I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.
  ~ Andy Cohen ~
• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
  ~ Red Skelton ~
• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
  ~ Red Skelton ~
• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
  ~ Red Skelton ~
• It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
  ~ Alan Alda ~
• I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
  ~ George Clooney ~
• Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
  ~ Hannah Arendt ~
• Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
  ~ Hannah Arendt ~
• I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.
  ~ Ginnifer Goodwin ~
• I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.
  ~ Ginnifer Goodwin ~
• The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
  ~ Jack Kevorkian ~
• You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.
  ~ Shaun White ~
• If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.
  ~ Michael J. Fox ~
• So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.
  ~ Newt Gingrich ~
• Since 'Idol' I've gotten used to having an amazing hair and make-up team around me, so I'm starting to get picky. I know what I like now and I'm happy to say 'Could we maybe change that?' if I don't like something. I don't yell or anything, but I think I could definitely start to act a little diva-ish when it comes to my look.
  ~ Jordin Sparks ~
• Since 'Idol' I've gotten used to having an amazing hair and make-up team around me, so I'm starting to get picky. I know what I like now and I'm happy to say 'Could we maybe change that?' if I don't like something. I don't yell or anything, but I think I could definitely start to act a little diva-ish when it comes to my look.
  ~ Jordin Sparks ~
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
  ~ Marcel Proust ~
• If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.
  ~ Marc Andreessen ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
  ~ Andrew Jackson ~
• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
  ~ Carl Jung ~
• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
  ~ Carl Jung ~
• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
  ~ Carl Jung ~
• Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
  ~ Marshall Mcluhan ~
• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
  ~ Robert A. Heinlein ~
• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
  ~ Robert A. Heinlein ~
• My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
  ~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~
• Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
  ~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~
• My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
  ~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~
• Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
  ~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~
• Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
  ~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~
• It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
  ~ Groucho Marx ~
• I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
  ~ Groucho Marx ~
• I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
  ~ Demetri Martin ~
• I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
  ~ Demetri Martin ~
• We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
  ~ Jean De La Bruyere ~
• We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
  ~ Jean De La Bruyere ~
• Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
  ~ Dennis Prager ~
• Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
  ~ Dennis Prager ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
  ~ Henri Frederic Amiel ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~