Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid

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

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
John Cleese

All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.
John Dillinger

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

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
Billie Joe Armstrong

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

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
Syd Barrett

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
Thomas Huxley

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
Bill Hicks

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
Fiona Apple

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler

When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.
Tommy Lasorda

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

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

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
Pamela Anderson

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
Nicholas Sparks

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
Kinky Friedman