Top 100 Happier Than Quotes
#1. I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.
Lee Radziwill
#2. I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am.
Sam Harris
#3. I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
Neil Gaiman
#4. Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
Baruch Spinoza
#5. I am never happier in the Lord than when I am in a bedroom with a sick person.
Smith Wigglesworth
#6. I love you. I'm happier right now than I ever remembered being.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#7. sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in
Laura Lippman
#8. ... she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever ...
Jane Austen
#9. I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.
Jonathan Franzen
#10. I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.
Storm Jameson
#11. most dogs seemed contented enough, and often seemed rather happier than the humans attached to them.
Alexander McCall Smith
#12. It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.
Peter Ackroyd
#13. On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it
Benjamin Franklin
#14. The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;
the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:
there is no pain as great as being alive,
no burden heavier than that of conscious life.
Ruben Dario
#15. I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system.
Meryl Davis
#16. I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
Garry Trudeau
#17. Thinking of death
strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off
made me feel happier than ever.
Dodie Smith
#18. The rich are happier than we are, and should be.
Mason Cooley
#19. I hung my fingertips on his waistband, tugging him closer.
Patch buried his face in the curve of my shoulder, his hands flexing over my back. He gave a low groan.
"I love you," he murmured into my hair. "I'm happier right now than I ever remember being.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#20. I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
#21. I was walking home from the library on Broadway, and I remember that the street looked different to me, very clear and beautiful, and I felt incredibly happy. I even said to myself, 'I've never been happier than I am now.
Siri Hustvedt
#22. I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health rather than disease care.
Suzanne Somers
#23. I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
Tom Petty
#25. And it was easier to have an unrequited love than to get all fussed and dressed and go out on dates every Saturday with men she was never going to fall in love with. So she'd quit dating, quit dressing up - and on the whole she was happier than she'd been before.
Patricia Briggs
#26. We'd like to think that our youth was madder, brighter, happier than it was. It comforts us as we grow older, to believe that once upon a time we danced at dawn in a fountain.
Robert Nathan
#27. Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.
Laura Lippman
#28. Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.
Os Guinness
#29. Maybe they were onto something in Six. Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life. Seemed happier than the rest of us, anyway.
Suzanne Collins
#30. People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.
Mike Rowe
#31. It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily married people are the least happy group of all and they pull down the average.
Jonathan Haidt
#32. Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
Rabindranath Tagore
#33. If you were offered the opportunity to be TOTALLY happy tomorrow, would you take it? If yes, (and I suspect most of us would say yes) what are you doing TODAY to make tomorrow be a happier day than today?
Brian Tracy
#34. Your mother was the love of my life. Not everyone gets to have that. I did. Yes, I miss her, but I'm happier being alone and missing her than pretending not to miss her while being with someone else. Does that ridiculous statement make sense?"
"Yes."
"Good.
Tracy Guzeman
#35. Money was money, but I didn't want to waste any time away from Pidge.
She was happier than I'd ever seen her, and for the first time, I felt like a normal, whole human being instead of some broken, angry man.
Jamie McGuire
#36. Let him! He is great but in his greatness he is no happier than we in our conflict! Goodness would not make evil; and what else hath he made? but let him sit on his vast solitary throne, creating worlds to make eternity less burthensome to his immense existence.
George Gordon Byron
#37. I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: - I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a passer by.
Edgar Allan Poe
#38. We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#39. If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.
Richard Rodgers
#40. I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates
Tamim Iqbal
#41. There's no evidence that women are actually happier at home. In fact numerous studies show that working moms are happier and more fulfilled than stay-at-home moms.
Emily Matchar
#42. The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
George Bernard Shaw
#43. Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
William Blake
#44. The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours all his life to outdo his competitors, only to find the end that the rich are no happier than the poor in the things that really matter.
Adam Smith
#45. I'm not rich as Bill Gates neither I'm famous as Tom Cruise, But trust me I am happier than all of them.
Rishabh Surya
#46. Buy experiences, not things. Spending on experiences makes people happier than spending on things. Things get broken and go out of style. Experiences get better every time you talk about them.
Jean Chatzky
#47. Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.
Dan Buettner
#48. I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort.
Charles Hermite
#49. We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.
Brother Lawrence
#50. Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.
Solomon Northup
#51. We're improving and taking our levels of customer satisfaction higher and higher ... Our customers are happier than they were before.
Ralph De La Vega
#52. Beyond the profound federal perks, married people make more money; we're healthier, physically and emotionally; we produce happier, more stable and more successful kids; we have more sex than our supposedly swinging single friends; we even live longer.
Jenna McCarthy
#53. Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
William Cowper
#54. I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'
Lea Michele
#55. If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Seneca The Younger
#56. I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.
Saffron Burrows
#57. I was and still am happier than a pig in slop.
Jim Harbaugh
#58. I had put on a bright yellow T-shirt in the hope that it would make me look happier than I felt.
Jojo Moyes
#60. I must not forget, I thought, that I have been happy, that I am being happier than one can be. But I forgot, I've always forgotten.
Clarice Lispector
#61. I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.
Karen Duffy
#62. My instruction to my parents is that I would rather they enjoy their retirement than leave me anything when they go. I am much happier watching them enjoying life.
Richard C. Armitage
#63. I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.
Daphne Oz
#64. Work with who you are, not towards what you want to be, and you will find you will be happier than you ever imagine.
Megan Linski
#65. I'm never happier than when I'm part of an ensemble. The rhythm of working in a group and the dynamic of each individual relationship within that group coming together is such a special thing.
Sarah Baker
#67. Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.
Ernie J Zelinski
#68. If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Montesquieu
#69. Success is about more than simple resilience. It's about using that downward momentum to propel ourselves in the opposite direction. It's about capitalizing on setbacks and adversity to become even happier, even more motivated, and even more successful. It's not falling down, it's falling up.
Shawn Achor
#70. I know you know the tale of Baby June You know the way she could deliver a tune She was a killer in a petticoat A little bit of everyone you adore ... And if your baby let you down at night, Well Baby June would make it up alright And I was never happier Than in the arms and charms of her
Terry Moore
#71. A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
Myrtle Reed
#72. Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
Joyce Brothers
#73. And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 4:2-3)
Anonymous
#74. Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.
Sophocles
#75. David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.
Moby
#76. You will never be more secure, you will never be more safe, and you will never be happier, more satisfied, than when you are trusting and obeying: resting in sovereignty and surrendering to sovereignty.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#77. From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but
James Cook
#78. You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.
Fulton J. Sheen
#79. There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?
Azar Nafisi
#80. He himself feels happier at this moment than he remembers he ever did in his life. The woman in front of him, who loves everything with or without a good reason, seems happy, too.
Yiyun Li
#81. Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.
Stephen Chbosky
#82. Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
Gottfried Leibniz
#83. Ironically, survey after survey shows that married men are happier and healthier than unmarried men. Oh, and they also have more sex.
Michael Kimmel
#85. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
Amy Poehler
#86. A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
Jonathan Sacks
#87. People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Elon Musk
#88. The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.
Anthony Liccione
#89. I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.
Pete Best
#90. You shall learn that reality is a cover, that imagination is our true essence. That a blur is more beautiful than what it hides, that scrutiny is a curse and that those who enjoy it are more miserable than how much happier it makes them think they become!
Ibraheem Hamdi
#91. It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.
David Gilmour
#92. And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#93. Human feelings are queer things
I am much happier
black-leading the stove's
making the beds and sweeping the floors at home, than I should be living like a fine lady anywhere else.
Charlotte Bronte
#94. I was letting go and undoing the hell I had created. By squaring all with love, trying to love rather than trying to be loved, and by taking responsibility for all that was happening to me; finding my subconscious thought and correcting it, I became freer and freer, happier and happier.
Lester Levenson
#95. Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee's affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact, they appear to have thrived.
Michael Korda
#96. I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theatre than when it came in.
Leo McCarey
#97. People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability.
Randy Wayne
#98. I didn't believe in happily-ever-after, but I did believe in happier-than-we'd-ever-been, because I was living it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#99. As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.
Randy Pausch
#100. People who smile tend to manage, teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children. There's far more information in a smile than a frown. That's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.
James V. McConnell
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