Happy Quotes

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Albert Camus

Agatha Christie

Aldous Huxley

Samuel Johnson

Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

A. A. Milne

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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.

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be that we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are —
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Lady Randolph Churchill

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

Honoré de Balzac

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Elsa Schiaparelli

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.

Anne Bradstreet

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Lawrence Lovasik

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.