Happy Quotes

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Friedrich Schiller

Room, Loving, Smallest

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
Dag Hammarskjold

Time, Christmas, Waiting

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
Hugh Laurie

Good, Hate, Tired

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Money, Experience, Alone

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.
Katy Perry

Ending, Charming, Prince

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.
Dave Barry

Sad, Fact, Stories

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.
Thucydides

War, Brave, Free

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Carl Sandburg

Fool, Often, Kinds

No one is happy all his life long.
Euripides

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
Paul Ryan

Religion, Guns, Catholic

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Men, Himself, Within

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
Kinky Friedman

Life, Possible, Worst

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

Beauty, Old, Youth

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France

Ignorance, Person, Except

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.
John Burroughs

Work, Happiness, Moment

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
Joey Ramone

Life, Nothing, Idea

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
Stephen Covey

Others, Abundance, Pie

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Old, Tell, Dying

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
Euripides

Neighbor, Luckier

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Virgil

Learn, Able, Causes

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
Martha Beck

Live, Caring, Start

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene

Ignorance, Evil, Else

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Life, Love, Romantic

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
Chris Rock

Time, Understand, Same

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Joseph Addison

Life, Important, Whole

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
William Law

Life, Greatest, Learned

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.
Alfred A. Montapert

God, True, Person

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Ovid

Love, Dare, Defend

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
Albert Ellis

Work, Around, Gospel

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
Ann Landers

Single, Rich, Wish

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