Happy Quotes

"It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife"

Patti Smith, Musician

"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers"

James Callaghan, Leader

"Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"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, Poet

"We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"I'm happy with the vote and the support. I'm very glad that it is so decisive. It will enable me to be a president for all of the people"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

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

Britney Spears, Musician

"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things"

Chaim Potok, Author

"I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life"

Britney Spears, Musician

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

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do"

Edward Albee, Dramatist

"Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"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, Writer

"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"People happy in love have an air of intensity"

Stendhal, Writer

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