Happy Quotes

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

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.

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

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

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.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

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.

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well.

Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

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

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.

I had a happy childhood.

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

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

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

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.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.

I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.

Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services.

It's a constant battle for everybody, but you need to be happy with yourself.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

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.