Best Quotes About Happy (Top 100)
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark Twain
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller
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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
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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
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It is never too late to have a happy childhood
Tom Robbins
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri
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You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice
Gordon B. Hinckley
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
Dorothy Parker
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
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I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
Kurt Cobain
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You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
David Nicholls
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway
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From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Albert Einstein
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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Andy Rooney
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I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
Richard Bach
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Jonathan Edwards
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Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Mae West
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Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?
William Arthur Ward
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid
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I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
Henry David Thoreau
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My wife and I were happy for twenty year. Then we met.
Rodney Dangerfield
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Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness—if you had little time left to live—you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason—or you will never be at all.
Dan Millman
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
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I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.
Marlene Dietrich
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Booker T. Washington
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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but
rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
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The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
Esther Hicks
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You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!
Jason Mraz
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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie
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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
Anthony de Mello
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We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
William James
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
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There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
Jodi Picoult
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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
Oscar Wilde
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A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Cicero
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Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Ovid
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume
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I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein
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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
Erma Bombeck
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You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.
Emmet Fox
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
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It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.
Henry Miller
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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie
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When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
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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
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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather
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Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
Brooke Shields
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris
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Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. Know when to let go and when to hold on tight. Stop rushing. Don't be intimidated to say it like it is. Stop apologizing all the time. Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. Spend time with the friends who lift you up, and cut loose the ones who bring you down. Stop giving your power away. Be more concerned with being interested than being interesting. Be old enough to appreciate your freedom, and young enough to enjoy it. Finally know who you are.
Kristin Armstrong
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell
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We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.
Jean Rhys
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The right to happiness is fundamental.
Anna Pavlova
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Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Bernard Meltzer
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You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.
Douglas Malloch
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara de Angelis
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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
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He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
William Law
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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Leslie Caron
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger
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Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.
David Geffen
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We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves
Confucius
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Dan Millman
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
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Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.
Irving Kristol
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If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
James Buchanan
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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
Don Herold
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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Ernie Banks
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Happiness is an inside job.
William Arthur Ward