Quotes on Happiness
“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Art, Happiness
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Life, Happiness
"I loved challenging myself every day. The weight room was my therapy for everyday life stresses."
Ronnie Coleman, Happiness
"The gym is one of the few places where I can just be myself without any hindrances and inhibitions."
Ronnie Coleman, Happiness
"Bodybuilding is a hobby. At least for me, it is. I've trained since I was 12 or 13 years old. It's a hobby I just have so much fun with it. I get so much enjoyment from it."
Ronnie Coleman, Happiness
"To have your job as your hobby - life don't get better than that."
Ronnie Coleman, Happiness, Life
"Your presence can give happiness. I hope you remember that."
BTS: Jin, Happiness, Goals
“I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.”
DJ Khaled, Happiness
“Business of man is to be happy.”
John Locke, Goals, Happiness
“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.”
John Locke, Life, Happiness
“I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.”
Johnny Depp, Happiness
Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
Clint Eastwood, Goals, Life, Happiness
“At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we’re going through.”
Kim Kardashian, Life, Happiness
“I love to make music, I love to get tattoos…That’s just what I love. If I wasn’t getting paid I’d still do it.”
Kevin Gates, Happiness
“I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ’cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.”
Kevin Gates, Happiness
“I like being with my family. That’s my party.”
Kevin Gates, Happiness
“I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it’s not so much trying to be funny, it’s trying to be real in a messed-up context. That’s comedy to me.”
Will Ferrell, Art, Happiness
“I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.”
Will Ferrell, Happiness
“Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.”
Will Ferrell, Happiness
“To place the responsibility for your happiness on anybody other than yourself is a recipe for misery.”
Will Smith, Goals, Happiness
“The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself.”
Victor Hugo, Love, Life, Happiness
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo, Love, Life, Happiness
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Happiness
“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. … One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Happiness
“Be happy without picking flaws.”
Victor Hugo, Goals, Happiness
“It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.”
Victor Hugo, Happiness
“It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.”
Victor Hugo, Happiness
“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
Victor Hugo, Happiness
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf, Happiness
“Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Virginia Woolf, Happiness
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Virginia Woolf, Happiness
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Virginia Woolf, Happiness
“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.”
Virginia Woolf, Life, Love, Happiness
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
William James, Happiness
“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”
― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James, Happiness, Nature
Then am I
A happy fly
If I live
Or if I die.”
William Blake, Happiness
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
William Blake, Happiness
“He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
William Blake, Happiness
“How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?”
William Blake, Happiness, Freedom
"Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself and not only because you wear expensive designer clothes. They are great, but lots of people are happy without them."
Karl Lagerfeld, Goals, Happiness
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
Andrew Carnegie, Happiness
“There is little success where there is little laughter.”
Andrew Carnegie, Happiness, Success
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
Andrew Carnegie, Happiness, Success
“At the end of the day, you won't be happy unil you love yourself.”
Lady Gaga, Love, Happiness
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
Richard Bach, Problems, Happiness
“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice.”
Richard Bach, Freedom, Happiness
“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Goals, Life, Happiness
“When the boys come, instead of buying Barbie dolls, all of a sudden you’re into trucks and remote controls, cars and tanks. You buy building blocks and build castles and locomotives. You get into knives and later take them shooting with pistols, shotguns, and rifles. All of which made me very happy.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Happiness
“Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Happiness, Wealth
“Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.”
John Lennon, Happiness
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
John Lennon, Life, Happiness
“Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
They call me on and on across the universe,
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe
Sounds of laughter shades of love are
Ringing through my open ears inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a
Million suns, and calls me on and on
Across the universe.”
John Lennon, Life, Happiness, Love, Nature
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon, Goals, Friendship, Happiness
“Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!”
― Richard Branson, Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur
Richard Branson, Work, Happiness
“Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.”
― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Richard Branson, Business, Success, Happiness
“There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering one. But ever since that night in Dover prison I have never been tempted to break my vow.. My Parents always drummed into me that all you have life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name you'll never be happy.”
― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Richard Branson, Life, Success, Happiness
“As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.”
― Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life
Richard Branson, Life, Happiness
“There is no doubt that the last hour of any flight is the hardest. If there are any clouds about to make shadows one is likely to see much imaginary land. . . .
As I approached shore I strained my eyes to see something recognizable, and there was nothing. However, I noticed a low place in the hills, and I thought, like the bear, I would go over the mountains to see what I could see.”
Amelia Earhart, Happiness
“the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many.
I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.”
Amelia Earhart, Happiness
“Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.”
― Amelia Earhart, The Fun of It
Amelia Earhart, Happiness
“I did for the fun of it.”
― Amelia Earhart, 20 Hours, 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship
Amelia Earhart, Happiness, Goals
“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
― Stephen King , The Dark Tower
Stephen King, Happiness
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Art, Happiness
“Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love."
Morgan Freeman, Kindness, Happiness, Love
“Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another...”
Che Guevara, Happiness
"If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier."
John Wooden, Happiness
"I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny."
Dr Seuss, Happiness
"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere."
Dr Seuss, Happiness
"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."
Dr Seuss, Happiness
“And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Wealth, Happiness
“Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Wealth, Happiness
“Hafid, so far as material wealth is concerned, there is only one difference between myself and the lowliest beggar outside Herod’s palace. The beggar thinks only of his next meal and I think only of the meal that will be my last. No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important, to acquire peace of mind and serenity.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Wealth, Happiness, Love, Goals
“Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.”
Erma Bombeck, Happiness
“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.”
Margaret Sanger, Happiness
“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”
Wendell Berry, Happiness
“Be joyful because it is humanly possible.”
Wendell Berry, Happiness, Goals
“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
Margaret Mead, Happiness
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Happiness
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
Robert Frost, Happiness
“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
Robert Frost, Happiness
"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
Thomas Edison, Success, Happiness
“If I could have anything, I would probably get an old Ford F-150 from the '70s.”
Theo Von, Happiness
“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.”
Will Rogers, Happiness
“Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Will Rogers, Happiness
“It is not worthwhile to leave this world without having had a little fun in life.”
Frida Kahlo, Life, Happiness
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.”
Frida Kahlo, Happiness, Strength
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
Frida Kahlo, Happiness, Art
“There is nothing more precious than laughter.”
Frida Kahlo, Happiness
“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”
Frida Kahlo, Happiness
“I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.”
Frida Kahlo, Happiness
“I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
Frida Kahlo, Hope, Happiness, Goals
“I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”
Frida Kahlo, Happiness
“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.”
David Hume, Hope, Happiness, Wealth
“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme happiness.”
David Hume, Happiness, Intelligence/Wisdom
“When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.”
David Hume, Life, Happiness
“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.”
David Hume, Happiness
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness.”
David Hume, Happiness
“Fun can be bought with money, but happiness cannot.”
Dave Ramsey, Wealth, Happiness
“There is nothing wrong with having nice things, but when you are trying to buy nice things to be happy, you are going to hurt.”
Dave Ramsey, Happiness
"Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed"
Poem – Success is counted sweetest
Emily Dickinson, Success, Happiness
"I measure every grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes –
I wonder if it weighs like mine –
Or has an Easier size."
Poem – I measure every grief I meet
Emily Dickinson, Happiness
"Wild nights – Wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!"
Poem – Wild nights
Emily Dickinson, Happiness
“I love leather and I love lace, but not necessarily together. I’m probably happiest in a long black velvet dress, black suede boots, and some kind of really beautiful wrap than I am in anything else. I don’t even own a pair of jeans.”
Stevie Nicks, Happiness
“Most women would not be happy being me. People say, ‘But you’re alone.’ But I don’t feel alone. I feel very un-alone.”
Stevie Nicks, Happiness
“I’m obsessed with lighting. I’m constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.”
Stevie Nicks, Happiness
“The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.”
Stevie Nicks, Art, Happiness
“But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn’t have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.”
Stevie Nicks, Happiness
“You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Goals, Happiness
“It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Happiness
“Having lived the life I’ve lived, and seeing the other side, not being afraid to attack what was in front of me has made me happy.”
David Goggins, Life, Happiness
“He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.”
Katharine Hepburn, Work, Happiness
“Heaven to be the first one up and to eat breakfast all alone.”
Katharine Hepburn, Happiness
“I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.”
Katharine Hepburn, Happiness
“Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life, Happiness
“Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.
Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more.”
Anne Frank, Wealth, Success, Happiness, Nature
“I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too.”
Anne Frank, Wealth, Happiness
“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”
Anne Frank, Goals, Belief, Love, Happiness, Strength, Courage
“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”
Anne Frank, Happiness, Work
“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”
Anne Frank, Happiness
“As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”
Anne Frank, Happiness
“We all live with the objective of being happy.”
Anne Frank, Happiness, Goals
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
Anne Frank, Happiness
“So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”
Helen Keller, Happiness
“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”
Helen Keller, Kindness, Happiness
“In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.”
Helen Keller, Art, Happiness
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller, Happiness, Goals
“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.”
Helen Keller, Happiness
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
Helen Keller, Happiness
“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
Helen Keller, Art, Happiness
“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”
Helen Keller, Life, Courage, Happiness
"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."
Helen Keller, Happiness, Success
"They haven’t an idea of what happiness is; they don’t know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness--no life at all."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Love, Happiness, Life
"‘You’ve said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing,’ he was saying; ‘but you know that friendship’s not what I want: that there’s only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so ... yes, love!...‘"
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Love, Happiness, Friendship
"His ideas of marriage were, consequently, quite unlike those of the great majority of his acquaintances, for whom getting married was one of the numerous facts of social life. For Levin it was the chief affair of life, on which its whole happiness turned."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Love, Happiness, Society
"‘So that’s what it is!’ he suddenly exclaimed aloud. ‘What joy!‘"
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Happiness
"The pleasures connected with his work were pleasures of ambition; his social pleasures were those of vanity; but Ivan Ilych’s greatest pleasure was playing bridge."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Work, Happiness
"There, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. But the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Happiness, Life
"And in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. But strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Happiness, Life
"Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Happiness, Death
"I am satisfied. I see, dance, laugh, sing."
Walt Whitman, Happiness
"Do anything, but let it produce joy."
Walt Whitman, Happiness, Goals
"Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour."
Walt Whitman, Happiness, Goals
"People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they’re very rarely the same."
Ricky Gervais, Happiness
"I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That was just who I was."
Ricky Gervais, Happiness
"I think you can make fun of anything except things people can’t help. They can’t help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas – ideas don’t have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them."
Ricky Gervais, Happiness
"If you can’t joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what’s the point of jokes? What’s the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things."
Ricky Gervais, Happiness
"Your critics want you to be as unhappy, unfulfilled, and unimportant as they are. Let your happiness eat them up from inside."
Ricky Gervais, Criticism, Happiness
"You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke."
Ricky Gervais, Happiness
"You have to be willing to get happy about nothing."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Happiness
"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."
Andy Warhol, Happiness
"But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party."
Andy Warhol, Happiness
"I like boring things."
Andy Warhol, Happiness
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs."
Andy Warhol, Happiness
"The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting."
Andy Warhol, Happiness
"I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
Princess Diana, Love, Happiness, Goals
"I don’t want expensive gifts; I don’t want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure."
Princess Diana, Happiness, Wealth
"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can."
Princess Diana, Goals, Happiness
"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
Princess Diana, Happiness, Wealth
"When you are happy you can forgive a great deal."
Princess Diana, Happiness, Forgive
"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny."
Princess Diana, Happiness, Goals, Life
"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny."
Princess Diana, Happiness
"Young Jenny Curran: What’s wrong with your legs?
Young Forrest Gump: Um, nothing at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy."
Forrest Gump, Happiness
"Momma says they was my magic shoes. They could take me anywhere.” –Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Happiness
"I don’t remember being born, I don’t recall what I got for my first Christmas, and I don’t know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world." –Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life, Happiness
"People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life."
James Baldwin, Life, Happiness
"I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself."
Henry David Thoreau, Happiness
"I make myself rich by making my wants few."
Henry David Thoreau, Happiness, Wealth
"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
Henry David Thoreau, Happiness, Wealth
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
Henry David Thoreau, Happiness, Friendship, Society
"I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next."
Henry David Thoreau, Happiness
"How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think—"
Alice in Wonderland, Happiness
"And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?"
Alice in Wonderland, Art, Happiness
"It’s always tea time."
Alice in Wonderland, Time, Happiness
"And no scheme of ours can raise any sort of smile."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals, Happiness
"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel seven again. Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my fans from the very first day, but they've said things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my friends -- more now than ever before. I'll never go a day without thinking about our memories together."
Taylor Swift, Life, Happiness
"I had my jubilee three years ago. I rejoiced all I could then; I can't rejoice no more."
Harriet Tubman, Happiness
"When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven."
Harriet Tubman, Freedom, Happiness
"I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.
I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle; so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear. They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with bitterest anguish. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness. I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing them. The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek. To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery. I can never get rid of that conception. Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds. If any one wishes to be impressed with the soul-killing effects of slavery, let him go to Colonel Lloyd's plantation, and, on allowance-day, place himself in the deep pine woods, and there let him, in silence, analyze the sounds that shall pass through the chambers of his soul, - and if he is not thus impressed, it will only be because "there is no flesh in his obdurate heart."
I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. At least, such is my experience. I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion."
Frederick Douglass, Freedom, Justice, Happiness, Music, Belief
"The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men. As I read and contemplated the subject, behold! that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to torment and sting my soul to unutterable anguish. As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. it opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. in moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity. I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate. The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm."
Frederick Douglass, Freedom, Happiness, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears."
Frederick Douglass, Freedom, Happiness
"Independence is happiness."
Susan B Anthony, Happiness, Freedom
"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, Happiness, Freedom
"There does exist, however, an external prize for man; when, for example, the orator sees the faces of his listeners change with the emotions he has awakened, he experiences something so great that it can only be likened to the intense joy with which one discovers that he is loved. Our joy is to touch, and conquer souls, and this is the one prize which can bring us a true compensation. Sometimes there is given to us a moment when we fancy ourselves to be among the great ones of the world. These are moments of happiness given to man that he may continue his existence in peace."
Maria Montessori, Happiness
"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
George Orwell, Happiness, Life
"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."
George Orwell, Freedom, Happiness, Society
"Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher."
Thomas Paine, Society, Government, Happiness
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
Thomas Paine, Happiness
"When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good."
Thomas Paine, Freedom, Happiness, Belief
"The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s harder to get your children to read books. I became a confirmed reader when I was growing up in Glendale. I’ve loved reading all my life. Now I’ve got this daughter, Aissa, a very bright young lady -- but it is a hard job to get her to read. Television’s just too easy."
John Wayne, Happiness, Life
"I've loved reading all my life."
John Wayne, Happiness
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
Jim Rohn, Happiness
"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."
Jim Rohn, Happiness
"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."
Jim Rohn, Happiness, Wealth, Goals
"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now."
Zig Ziglar, Success, Happiness
"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Happiness, Life
"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
Ernest Hemingway, Happiness
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemingway, Happiness, Intelligence/Wisdom
"I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?"
Epictetus, Happiness
"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at."
Epictetus, Happiness
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will."
Epictetus, Happiness
"For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys."
Seneca, Happiness
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."
Seneca, Happiness, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing."
Bruce Lee, Time, Happiness
"Be happy, but never satisfied."
Bruce Lee, Happiness
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Happiness, Wealth, Success, Work
"Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world."
George Washington, Happiness
"Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its rank among the Nations; The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government; the free cultivation of Letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of Manners, the growing liberality of sentiment... have had a meliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of Society. At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own."
George Washington, Intelligence/Wisdom, Happiness, Government, Society
"There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
George Washington, Intelligence/Wisdom, Happiness
"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
George Washington, Happiness
"The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government."
Thomas Jefferson, Justice, Happiness, Government
"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Thomas Jefferson, Happiness, Government
"Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely."
Selena Gomez, Success, Happiness
"I know unless I’m true to myself I couldn’t be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character."
Betty White, Life, Happiness
"I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple."
Betty White, Life, Happiness
"The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot … It’s much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more ... I want to say 'sophisticated.'"
Betty White, Art, Happiness
"I know it sounds corny, but I try to see the funny side and the upside, not the downside. I get bored with people who complain about this or that. It’s such a waste of time."
Betty White, Happiness
"Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it’s got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can’t just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that – it’s got to be funny."
Betty White, Happiness
"It’s fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh."
Betty White, Art, Happiness
"Humor is like music. It’s a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel, you know."
Betty White, Happiness, Music
"Laughter keeps everyone feeling wonderful."
Betty White, Happiness
"When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people."
Betty White, Happiness
"I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet."
Betty White, Happiness
"The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it."
Teddy Roosevelt, Happiness
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
Teddy Roosevelt, Happiness
"Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness
"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness
"For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness
"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness
"Happy girls are the prettiest."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness, Sex
"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness
"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness
"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness
"I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness
"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, Happiness
"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness
"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness, Sex
"If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness
"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness, Life
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
Carl Jung, Happiness
"About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times."
Carl Jung, Happiness
"I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears."
Carl Jung, Belief, Happiness
"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
Carl Jung, Happiness
"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."
Socrates, Happiness
"If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."
Socrates, Happiness
"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
Socrates, Wealth, Happiness
"The secret to humor is surprise."
Aristotle, Happiness
"Happiness is a state of activity."
Aristotle, Happiness
"One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."
Aristotle, Happiness
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
Aristotle, Happiness, Work
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god."
Aristotle, Happiness
"To perceive is to suffer."
Aristotle, Happiness
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
Aristotle, Happiness, Life
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Aristotle, Happiness
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
Mark Twain, Happiness
"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."
Mark Twain, Happiness
"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."
Marilyn Monroe, Happiness, Work
"It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far."
Marilyn Monroe, Happiness
"For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit."
Marilyn Monroe, Happiness
"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting than being one."
Marilyn Monroe, Happiness, Work
"Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life."
Marilyn Monroe, Happiness
"It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake."
Marilyn Monroe, Sex, Happiness
"Keep smiling because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."
Marilyn Monroe, Happiness
"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."
Marilyn Monroe, Happiness
"I wonder what Piglet is doing,” thought Pooh. “I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness, Friendship
"When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"It isn’t much good having anything exciting, if you can’t share it with somebody."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness, Friendship
"Tiggers never go on being sad."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"Yesterday, when it was tomorrow, it was too exciting a day for me."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"I am short, fat, and proud of that."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"But it isn’t easy,” said Pooh. “Because Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?"
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,’ said Pooh. ‘There, there,’ said Piglet. ‘I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"I’m so rumbly in my tumbly."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"I wonder how many wishes a star can give."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"I’m just a little black rain cloud, hovering under the honey tree."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"Could you spare a small smackerel?"
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness
"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place."
Rumi, Problems, Happiness
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
Rumi, Happiness
"Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections."
Bob Marley, Happiness
"There is peace even in the storm."
Van Gogh, Happiness
"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."
Martin Luther King Jr., Happiness
"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
Abraham Lincoln, Happiness, Belief
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once."
Abraham Lincoln, Happiness
"Every man's happiness is his own responsibility."
Abraham Lincoln, Happiness
"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."
Abraham Lincoln, Happiness
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
Abraham Lincoln, Happiness
"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
Gandhi, Happiness
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Gandhi, Happiness
"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."
Marcus Aurelius, Happiness
"Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
Marcus Aurelius, Happiness
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."
Marcus Aurelius, Happiness
"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."
Marcus Aurelius, Happiness
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
Marcus Aurelius, Happiness
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
Marcus Aurelius, Happiness
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
Marcus Aurelius, Happiness
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
Winston Churchill, Happiness
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
Bertrand Russell, Happiness
"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
Bertrand Russell, Happiness
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interest be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons who interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
Bertrand Russell, Happiness
"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."
Bertrand Russell, Happiness, Kindness
"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own."
Bertrand Russell, Life, Happiness, Love
"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."
Bertrand Russell, Life, Happiness
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways."
Bertrand Russell, Life, Happiness
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
Bertrand Russell, Love, Happiness
"Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better. I worry about many things, but not about water over the dam."
Walt Disney, Happiness
"I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past."
Walt Disney, Happiness
"Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children’s approach to life...They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought—sometimes it isn’t much, either."
Walt Disney, Happiness
"Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things."
Walt Disney, Happiness
"Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job."
Walt Disney, Happiness, Life, Work, Goals
"In bad times and in good, I’ve never lost my sense of zest for life."
Walt Disney, Happiness
"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever."
Walt Disney, Goals, Happiness
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
Walt Disney, Goals, Happiness
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
Voltaire, Happiness
“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
Voltaire, Happiness
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
Voltaire, Happiness
"Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal."
Voltaire, Happiness
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
Voltaire, Happiness
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
Voltaire, Happiness
"Alone and rejected, Mummy Boy wept, then went to the cabinet where the snack food was kept."
Tim Burton, Happiness
"If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you."
Tim Burton, Happiness
"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me."
Tim Burton, Happiness
"With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?"
Oscar Wilde, Freedom, Happiness
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
Michelangelo, Happiness
"When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life."
Julius Caesar, Happiness
"Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist."
George Carlin, Happiness
"Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Happiness
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
Dale Carnegie , Happiness, Success
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin, Happiness
"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances."