Life & Living: Happiness Quotes

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"I am a lucky, lucky person"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears"

Dorothy Dix, Journalist

"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some"

Booth Tarkington, Novelist

Booth Tarkington

"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness"

Bill Blass, Designer

Bill Blass

"I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else"

Jilly Cooper, Author

Jilly Cooper

"Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Happiness does not consist in self-love"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do"

Jerry Gillies, Author

Jerry Gillies

"If you're not enjoying yourself, you can't really look as if you are"

Glenn Tipton, Musician

"You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't"

Charlie Watts, Musician

"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, Athlete

"I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... Hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

Terence Stamp, Actor

"Well I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice"

Ringo Starr, Musician

"There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"All I ever wanted to be was happy"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

Goldie Hawn

"From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness"

Benjamin Hoff, Author

"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy"

James Boswell, Lawyer

"I never was someone who was at ease with happiness"

Hugh Laurie, Comedian

"I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense"

Coretta Scott King, Activist

"In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you!"

Knut Hamsun, Author

Knut Hamsun

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy"

Guillaume Apollinaire, Novelist

"I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life"

Joe Sakic, Athlete

"True happiness is appreciated only when lost"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

"France can be a nation of happiness"

Emmanuel Macron, President

Emmanuel Macron

"It's a wonderful feeling knowing that people are interested in what I'm doing"

Rena Marlette Lesnar, Model

Rena Marlette Lesnar

"People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim"

William Shenstone, Poet

"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!"

Samuel Pepys, Writer

"The things that make me happy most are my family and working"

Damon Albarn, Musician

Damon Albarn

"I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"Who's happy these days?"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know"

Brendan Fraser, Actor

"That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do"

Amy Tan, Novelist

Amy Tan

"Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life"

Agnes Martin, Artist

"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door"

Brooke Shields, Actress

Brooke Shields

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