Quotes about happiness

„People come to Los Angeles and sell their soul every day. It’s sad. Here, the mentality is that everyone has a price. But I say no – no money can buy my soul. I’ve had so many offers that I didn’t think were proper and I’d say sorry, I don’t need it. I didn’t want to work my butt off and not be happy. I’ll always choose happiness and life over all the money in the world. Across my entire career, I had respect in the industry, because I was the one who never sold out.“

—  Fabio Lanzoni Italian model, actor and author 1961

Fabio: confessions of the original male supermodel https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/jul/15/fabio-confessions-original-male-supermodel (July 15, 2015)

„You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy.“

—  Louis Sachar, book Sideways Stories From Wayside School

Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Source: Sideways Stories from Wayside School

„Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.“

—  Leo Buscaglia Motivational speaker, writer 1924 - 1998

Source: The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story Of Life For All Ages

„I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.“

—  Rosa Parks African-American civil rights activist 1913 - 2005

Quoted in "Standing Up for Freedom," Academy of Achievement.org (2005-10-31)

„And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?“

—  Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942

„Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.“

—  Auguste Escoffier French chef, restaurateur, and culinary writer 1846 - 1935

„Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.“

—  Zayn Malik British singer 1993

„How great a joy I feel in my heart. That a day so pleasant, so dear and glorious begins, a day that I greet with the wish. That long years may pass in happiness. In health and vigour, peacefully, successfully. May the gift of heaven fall richly upon you“

—  Frédéric Chopin Polish composer 1810 - 1849

As quoted in his letter to his father, dated December 6th 1817[citation needed]

„The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.“

—  Osamu Dazai, book No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

„The present difficulty, in bringing all parts of the United States to a happy unity and love of country grows out of the prejudice to color. The prejudice is a senseless one, but it exists.“

—  Ulysses S. Grant 18th President of the United States 1822 - 1885

Memorandum: Reasons why Santo Domingo should be annexed to the United States http://books.google.com/books?id=h2ETxC83sdsC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=%22and+he+would+soon+receive+such+recognition+as+to+induce+him+to+stay%22&source=bl&ots=0bCUbNud-b&sig=SUGBB2pV8Ob_jR_KTJvQ2kenxKM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=B-9kU7-8DtXesAT_4YGQBA&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22and%20he%20would%20soon%20receive%20such%20recognition%20as%20to%20induce%20him%20to%20stay%22&f=false (1869-1870?).
1860s
Context: Caste has no foothold in Santo Domingo. It is capable of supporting the entire colored population of the United States, should it choose to emigrate. The present difficulty, in bringing all parts of the United States to a happy unity and love of country grows out of the prejudice to color. The prejudice is a senseless one, but it exists. The colored man cannot be spared until his place is supplied, but with a refuge like San Domingo his worth here would soon be discovered, and he would soon receive such recognition to induce him to stay; or if Providence designed that the two races should not live to-gether he would find his home in the Antilles.

„How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!“

—  William Makepeace Thackeray, book Pendennis

Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d“

—  Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

Source: Eloisa to Abelard

„Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.“

—  Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942

Source: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999

„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

„Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields… Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.“

—  Mary Oliver American writer 1935 - 2019

„The noblest art is that of making others happy“

—  P.T. Barnum American showman and businessman 1810 - 1891

„Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.“

—  Immanuel Kant German philosopher 1724 - 1804

„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.

„Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.“

—  Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945