Happy Quotes

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham

Love, Person, Same

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
Kurt Cobain

Today, Friends, Found

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Good, Wife, Find

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Kurt Cobain

Peace, Best, Hope

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

Christmas, Home, Win

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
Audrey Hepburn

Morning, Alone, Night

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green

Life, Work, Family

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
Dalai Lama

Hardships, Physical

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe

Faith, Wise, Human

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen Keller

Why, Dark, Call

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

Faith, Education, History

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

Family, Heaven, Earlier

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Steven Wright

Birthday, Down, Remember

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.
Angelina Jolie

Good, Amazing, Husband

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

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm

Life, Love, Morning

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Yourself, Thinking

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
Demetri Martin

Birthday, Christmas, Jesus

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Chanakya

Family, Fear, Sorrow

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen

Talent, Liking, Instead

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman

Marriage, Secret, Remains

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
Russell Brand

Yourself, Selfish, Care

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

Story, Stop, Ending

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 Green Ingersoll

Happiness, Time, Good

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Successful, Mind, Wish

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig Ziglar

Money, Find, Themselves

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unhappy, Speaking, Hearing

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

Peace, Nature, Time

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle

Time, Blessed, Short

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