Happy Quotes: Inspiring Words for Joyful Living (Page 2)

"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy"

Jennie Churchill, Celebrity

"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see"

Henri Rousseau, Artist

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"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, Comedian

"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"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, Cartoonist

"Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will"

Dan Millman, Author

"I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything"

Maggie Smith, Actress

"The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy"

Johann Heinrich Lambert, Mathematician

"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all"

Ovid, Poet

"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love"

Ovid, Poet

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable"

Adam Smith, Economist

"I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun"

Britney Spears, Musician

"Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen"

Dyan Cannon, Actress

"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems"

Shelley Winters, Actress

"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending"

William Dean Howells, Author

"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money"

David Geffen, Businessman

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

"Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy"

Cynthia Nelms, Author

"All you may need to be happy is love, but to survive you need money!"

Jason Zebehazy, Businessman

"Simplicity makes me happy"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale"

Elsa Schiaparelli, Designer

"Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

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