quotes about Being Happy
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
-- Albert Camus -
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
-- Alice Walker -
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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
-- Ann BrasharesSource : FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Mar 01, 2012
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
-- Ann BrasharesSource : Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”
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Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
-- Anna SewardSource : Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.73
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.
-- Ben Chandler -
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
-- Billy Connolly -
You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
-- Bob Dylan -
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
-- Brooke ShieldsSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
-- Carl Jung -
There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
-- Carter Burwell -
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.
-- Charlie Hunnam -
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
-- Christina Milian -
We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
-- Dalai Lama -
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True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
-- Dan Buettner -
I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
-- Debby Boone -
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
-- Democritus -
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There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
-- Doug Larson -
Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
-- Eddie Barclay -
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
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If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!
-- Emm Gryner -
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-- EpictetusSource : Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications
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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
-- Epicurus -
There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.
-- Euripides -
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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
-- Gabriel HeatterSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.
-- Gelett Burgess -
The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.
-- Gene Simmons -
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
-- Golda Meir -
The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
-- Goswami Kriyananda -
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
-- Goswami Kriyananda -
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
-- Groucho Marx -
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
-- Hannah Arendt -
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.
-- Helen RowlandSource : Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.81, Lulu.com
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Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
-- Herschel Walker -
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
-- Ian Anderson -
People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.
-- Irwin Federman -
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
-- James HillmanSource : "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.
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It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
-- Jane FondaSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Every moment of your life, including this one, is a fresh start.
-- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber -
I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!
-- Jeff Bridges -
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
-- Joan Jett -
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It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
-- Joe PantolianoSource : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
-- Joey Ramone -
As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.
-- John Frusciante -
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
-- John LubbockSource : Sir John Lubbock (1897). “The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In”, p.2, Library of Alexandria
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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
-- Johnny CarsonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.
-- Josh Hartnett -
The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.
-- Joy Gardner -
I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.
-- Kelly Preston -
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Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.
-- Koo Stark -
Life is not always 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 -
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
-- Leonardo DiCaprioSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.
-- Leonardo DiCaprio -
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
-- Luc de ClapiersSource : "Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays". Book by Keith Stern, 2009.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
-- Mary Higgins ClarkSource : Mary Higgins Clark (2011). “ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE”, p.63, Simon and Schuster
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The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.
-- Miguel Angel Ruiz -
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov -
When you learn to die, you learn to live.
-- Morrie Schwartz -
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
-- Mother Teresa -
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
-- Nhat Hanh -
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Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
-- Og Mandino -
I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.
-- Olivia Newton-John -
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
-- Omar Khayyam -
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
-- Penelope Cruz -
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
-- R. A. SalvatoreSource : R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.128, Wizards of the Coast
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.
-- Reba McEntire -
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
-- Richard Bach -
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.
-- Rumi -
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
-- Sam LevensonSource : Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.83, Open Road Media
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I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ***** off to get out of it as soon as possible.
-- Sarah McLachlan -
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I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.
-- Sarah Michelle Gellar -
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
-- Slavoj Žižek -
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
-- Solomon -
Happy are those who find wisdom... She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
-- Solomon -
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To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.
-- Sophia Bush -
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
-- Stephen Fry -
Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?
-- Susan Hampshire -
My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.
-- Susan Hampshire -