Happy Quotes

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge

Seem, Cause, Except

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Benjamin Disraeli

Safe, Palace, Cottage

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope

Forgetting, Forgot, Blameless

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Dan Millman

Love, Reason, Act

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
Jack Kevorkian

Sports, Working, Rich

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

Together, Old, Pride

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Happiness, Necessary, Delusion

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Horace

Sad, Busy, Thinking

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac

Happiness, Bad, Off

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
Dolly Parton

Time, Good, Person

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry

Life, Work, Sunshine

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon

Life, Age, Moment

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Princess Diana

Great, Forgive, Deal

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
Paul Hawken

Life, Time, Single

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

Excellent, Temper, Suit

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.
Denis Leary

Time, Woman, Moment

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
Akhenaton

Art, Wise, Soul

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace

Life, Find, Anyone

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson

Children, Find, Allow

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
William Butler Yeats

Everything, Inside, Outside

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
James Madison

Food, May, Once

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Mason Cooley

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
James Broughton

Child, Inner, Ageless

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin

Success, Work, May

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin

Done, Question, While

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
Julia Roberts

Great, Angry, Lose

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift

Happiness, High, Finding

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
Chloe Sevigny

Business, Put, Keep

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin

Greatest, Human, Country

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