Quotes about happiness

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“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”

“There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.”

“You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.”

“maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.”

“We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.”

“When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”

“Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”

“Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.”

“We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.”

“The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.”

“My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy? ]”

“He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.”

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”

“Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.”

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.”

“I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.”

“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.”

“I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.”

“I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.”

“When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”

“I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.”

“I don't want to be stinky poo-poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.”

“Happiness often comes when least expected.”

“I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.”

“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out — you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”

“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”

“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”

“Too excited to be genuinely happy”

“Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.”

“Don't worry, be happy.”

“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.”

“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”

“Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.”

“Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.”

“How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?”

“It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”

“Well. Like I said, I dont want to fight anymore. I dont want us to hate each other. And… well… I squeezed my eyes shut and then opened them. No matter how I fee about us… I want you to be happy”

“Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.”

“Dogs are a gift to mankind. They are happy and joyful and loyal by nature. They are pure, positive energy and teach by example. That is all that's required of them.”

“Tell me of a happy memory, Zarek. One thing in your life that was good. (Astrid)
You. (Zarek)”

“We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.”

“If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.”

“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”

“And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.”

“To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”

“You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.”

“… the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love”

“You don't find happiness in the absence of problems. You find happiness in spite of problems.”

“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”

“Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”

“For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. They could have a future together.”

“I laid it all out for him: Eliza believes in me, she moves me, and she's moved BY me. She makes me happy, she makes me sad, she makes me try harder, she makes me laugh, and she makes me feel like I can fly. Isn't that the goddamn definition of Love?”

“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”

“Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.”

“Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.”

“There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe…. The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.”

“Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.”

“It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.”

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”

“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”

“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".”

“Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.”

“you know festus means happy in Latin right? You want us to go save the world on Happy the dragon?"
-Jason to Leo in the lost hero”

“But if we’re going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it.”
Toshak shrugged. “Do as you wish,” he said. “Occasion or not, as long as they’re all dead, I’m happy.”

“Decide what makes you happy and damn what anyone else thinks or says”

“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”

“One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.”

“I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.”

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

“The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story”

“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”

“They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.”

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”

“Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity
and pain.”

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.”

“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”

“You could be
the leaf that never falls from the tree
you could be
the sun that never leaves the sky
this might be
the happy ending without the ending
this might be
a reason to try”

“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”

“You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the
perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy
little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the
titles.”

“The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.”

“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.”

“the desire to wring out a few more drips of happiness almost always destroyed the happiness you were so lucky to have, and so foolish never to acknowledge.”

“Life Plan:
I asked her what she planned to do with her life & she said she was way beyond that point already. I'm just happy I remember to be there when it happens, she said.”

“It’s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.”

“Clary grinned at Luke. “So you’re not moving to Idris, I take it?”
“Nah,” he said. He looked as happy as she’d ever seen him. “The pizza here is terrible.”

“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”

“We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.”

“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.”

“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”

“Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there…”

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”

“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.”

“All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.”

“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”

“The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.”

“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”

“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”