Happy Quotes

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Humor, Happiness, Strength

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.
Angelina Jolie

Trust, Fun, Wrong

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington

Religion, Good, Great

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
Marilyn Monroe

American, Child, Expecting

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
Marilyn Monroe

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Friendship, Marriage

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats

Happiness, Growth, Growing

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
Marilu Henner

Life, Stress, Important

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

Beauty, Around, Left

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway

Love, Good, Death

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony

Girl, Living, Sense

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

Secret, Miserable, Whether

If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball

Laughter, Lives, Value

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

Enough, Miserable, Whether

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus

Heart, Struggle, Enough

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Dennis Prager

Lazy, Ungrateful, Become

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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Spike Milligan

Money, Chance, Ask

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe

Life, Real, Soon

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw

Rich, Same, Everyone

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

Health, Give, Whether

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson

Whole, Progress, Crime

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Good, Others

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

Others, Concerned

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.
Charlotte Davis Kasl

Heart, Children, Together

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus

Money, Spiritual, Makes

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Leslie Caron

Happiness, Great, Pain

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