Happy Quotes

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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

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

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy—deep down.

Katherine Mansfield

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.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Until he is dead, do not yet call a man happy, but only lucky.

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

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

Honoré de Balzac

A word of caution: people will tell you that success can't buy you happiness. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

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

The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

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

How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten—happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

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.

Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds wherever we go.

Martha Washington

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.