Quotes about happiness page 15
“Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Between the Lines
“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”
Spike Milligan (1918–2002) British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor
Variant: Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy.
“Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?”
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Thomas Cooper (29 November 1802)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
Variant: If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Dark Needs at Night's Edge
“If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.”
Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: The Joys of Love
“You can, t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery
-Tyler Perry
The Family That Preys”
Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
Variant: Are You Living or Just Existing?"
-Tyler Perry
The Family That Preys
“everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending………”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“if you want to keep happiness, you have to share it!”
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
That's when it's really sad.
Rolling Stone magazine/iTunes podcast (December 2005)
On the "chin-up sad" tone of one of his new songs on his upcoming album "Continuum"
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.”
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
Michael Singer (1945) American landscape architect
Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
“If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night
Source: Tender Is the Night
“Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.”
Isaac Asimov book The Gods Themselves
Section 3, Chapter 19, p. 287
Source: The Gods Themselves (1972)
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Variant: Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“You can be right or you can be happy.”
Gerald G. Jampolsky (1925) American writer and psychiatrist
Source: Love Is Letting Go of Fear
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound
Variant: While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to break his heart too much when the time comes.
Source: Spirit Bound
Primo Levi book If This Is a Man
If This Is a Man (1947)
Context: Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition, which is opposed to everything infinite. Our ever-insufficient knowledge of the future opposes it: and this is called, in the one instance, hope, and and in the other, uncertainty of the following day. The certainty of death opposes it: for it places a limit on every joy, but also on every grief. The inevitable material cares oppose it: for as they poison every lasting happiness, they equally assiduously distract us from our misfortunes and make our consciousness of them intermittent and hence supportable.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
1820s, Letter to A. Coray (1823)
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Context: The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. Modern times have the signal advantage, too, of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit: government by the people, acting not in person, but by representatives chosen by themselves, that is to say; by every man of ripe years and sane mind, who either contributes by his purse or person to the support of his country.
“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”
John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game
Source: Ender's Game
“Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.”
André Gide book The Immoralist
Source: The Immoralist
“I’m always thinking about what I’m missing. Even when I’m happy with what I have.”
Alyson Nöel (1965) writer
Source: Saving Zoë
“I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.”
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”
James Altucher (1968) American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and author
“Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.”
Anna Gavalda (1970) French writer
Source: Someone I Loved
“There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.”
Iphigenia in Tauris (c. 412 BC) l. 721
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"The Friend. The Improvisatore" (1828)
“Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
