99 Happy Quotes

1.  I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. Audrey Hepburn
2. Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. Norman Douglas
3. Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. Mario Batali
4. Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. George A. Sheehan
5. By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
6. But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half. Richard Cobden
7. I don't know the true meaning of happiness. Jonathan Davis
8. Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life. Agnes Martin
9. Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Thomas Jefferson
10. I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America. Youssou N'Dour
11. My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. David Herbert Lawrence
12. I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. Vanessa Paradis
13. Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. Gilbert K. Chesterton
14. There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness. John Buchan
15. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha
16. True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. William J. H. Boetcker
17. Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! Freddie Mercury
18. Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
19. Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. Alexander Smith
20. Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. Alastair Campbell
21. Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. John Lubbock
22. Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. Fiona Shaw
23. 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
24. There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. Euripedes
25. It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. Dalai Lama
26. How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. William James
27. One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way. Isabelle Eberhardt
28. I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that. Criss Angel
29. Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. Saint Augustine
30. It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. Elsie de Wolfe
31. When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Nicole Kidman
32. Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin
33. I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering. Norodom Sihamoni
34. Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. Julia Roberts
35. Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. Pablo Picasso
36. What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. Henny Youngman
37. And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm. Jamie Foxx
38. What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring? Richard Owen Cambridge
39. When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. Sophocles
40. I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience. Debbi Fields
41. Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. Maurice Sendak
42. 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
43. Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant
44. So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. Booth Tarkington
45. You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. Philip Kaufman
46. There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. Denis Diderot
47. Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. J. Donald Walters
48. It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it. Simon Travaglia
49. Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. Alice Walker
50. All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness. William Law
51. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison
52. The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness. Richard Eyre
53. My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child. Emmylou Harris
54. When ambition ends, happiness begins. Thomas Merton
55. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas
56. I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny. Daniel Johns
57. It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts. Barry Took
58. Happiness is making your dreams come true. Jourdan Dunn
59. As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive. Bharati Mukherjee
60. Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. Bryant H. McGill
61. My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die. David Mamet
62. If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy
63. 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
64. It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant
65. Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. Daisaku Ikeda
66. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau
67. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius
68. The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. William Hall
69. How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. William Ellery Channing
70. The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. Marguerite Duras
71. What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. Sigmund Freud
72. All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. John Gunther
73. If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell
74. Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. Marguerite Gardiner
75. We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. Kenichi Fukui
76. You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. Horace
77. I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Victoria Woodhull
78. The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. Sidney Sheldon
79. It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. Thor Heyerdahl
80. 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
81. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson
82. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama
83. I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness. Princess Margaret
84. The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. Joseph Butler
85. Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
86. Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. Rollo May
87. My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.' Kitty Kelley
88. Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. Ogden Nash
89. If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. Thomas Jefferson
90. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
91. Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
92. Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper
93. In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it. Rex Reed
94. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson
95. Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. Henry Drummond
96. Every age has its happiness and troubles. Jeanne Calment
97. Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. Charles Van Doren
98. Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. Alexander Pope
99. Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness. Merrill Markoe