Happy Quotes

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Aldous Huxley

Orson Welles

Albert Camus

Leo Tolstoy

Agatha Christie

Eleanor Roosevelt

Marcel Proust

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

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

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

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience. Now experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves. By a happy dispensation of nature, the poet generally possesses the gift of experience in conjunction with that of expression.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

George Washington

I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes — they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn.

Agatha Christie

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.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

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

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

Georges Simenon

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.