„You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.“
— Paul Walker American actor 1973 - 2013
Flaunt Magazine, July 2001.
Quotes about happiness
A collection of quotes on the topic of happiness.
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„There are some things in life that make you happy, and make you like your life. Then there are some things in life that you witness, that make you not like your life as much. I think that's one of them. I'm sorry, Juan.“
— Patrick Stump American musician 1984
Release the Bats DVD, after Juan takes the "Triple Pepper Threat" in the Release the Bats DVD
„Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.“
— Xi Jinping General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and paramount leader of China 1953
2010s, As quoted in "Xi Jinping meets model workers" http://english.cntv.cn/20130501/102444.shtml in cctv.com English (1 May 2013).
„There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.“
— Bob Ross American painter, art instructor, and television host 1942 - 1995
„I'm very happy, very delighted.... for I am surrounded here by all that I love. I spent my time out of doors.... and naturally I'm working all the time, and I think this year I'm going to do some serious things. And then in the evening, dear fellow, I come home to my little cottage to find a good fire and a dear little family... Dear friend, it's a delight to watch this person [his first son Jean, born in 1867] grow, and I am glad to have him to be sure…“
— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
1850 - 1870, in a letter to Frédéric Bazille: as cited by K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 22
„We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents. And that's when you really experience the joy of painting.“
— Bob Ross American painter, art instructor, and television host 1942 - 1995
Bob Ross: Beauty Is Everywhere. Collection 1: Ep. 8 "Wintertime Blues"; The Joy of Painting Season 20: Episode 3 Bob Ross: Winter in Pastel.
„Drugs provide pleasure; they cannot provide happiness. For happiness, you need people.“
— William Glasser American psychiatrist 1925 - 2013
Choice Theory (1997), p. 88
„My darling girl, Unfortunately, this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheart - and I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!“
— Martin Bormann Nazi leader and private secretary to Adolf Hitler 1900 - 1945
Quoted in "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" - Page 873 - by Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993.
„Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.“
— Hosea Ballou American Universalist minister (1771–1852) 1771 - 1852
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 350.
„I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS All!“
— Christopher McCandless American hiker and explorer 1968 - 1992
Final written goodbye, August 13, 1992 http://www.christophermccandless.info/bio.html
„When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.“
— Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968
We Bereaved (1929)
„With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.“
— Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
„Generous love, the glue that holds everything together in a healthy relationship, aims for shared happiness through the fulfillment of one’s partner.“
— Lama Ole Nydahl Danish lama 1941
Buddha & Love: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Relationships (2012)
„A fine thing: suddenly to forget about one’s history, one’s past, to stop feeling that one’s present happiness is endangered by what one used to be.“
— Peter Handke Austrian writer, playwright and film director 1942
Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 7
„Should you seek might, power, false honor, excess — seek that we would work for you to provide your temporal advantages — we will bring you as close to the throne as you wish, and then turn you over to the consequences of your folly, but our inner sanctuary remains closed to such. But should you want to learn wisdom — want to learn to make mankind more clever, better, free and happy — then be thrice welcomed by us.“
— Adam Weishaupt German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati 1748 - 1830
Die neuesten Arbeiten des Spartacus und Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden (1794) pp. 9-10.
„Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.“
— Rose Wilder Lane American journalist 1886 - 1968
