Happy Quotes

"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders"

"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

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"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

"If you want to be happy, be"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"

Jane Austen, Writer

"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 would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories"

Dave Barry, Author

"There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

"I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing"

William James, Philosopher

"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance"

David Hume, Philosopher

"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really"

George Martin, Producer

"It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity"

Terry Fox, Athlete

"I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period"

Claudette Colbert, Actress

"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country"

Gilbert Hernandez, Artist

"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family"

Philip Green, Businessman

"I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat"

John Cleese, Actor

"How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"Flowers are happy things"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again"

Frances Rodman

"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

"The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy"

Eddie Slovik, Soldier

"If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"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

"Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace"

James Thomson, Musician

"But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

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

Cynthia Nelms, Author

"To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow"

Graham Taylor, Coach

"Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time were outside of Mississippi, and now all the things that I need to make me happy are back there"

Sela Ward, Actress

"Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth"

Hesiod, Poet

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story"

Orson Welles, Actor

"I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment"

Rick Allen, Musician

"Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy"

Akhenaton, Statesman

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