Top 100 Happy As Quotes
#1. As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
Betty Smith
#2. You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
Maisie Williams
#3. You have completely captured my heart. I promise to do everything in my power to make you as happy as you've already made me. I'd do anything for you, Channie. No sacrifice is too great. Will you accept this ring as a token of that promise?
Charlotte Abel
#4. The people we see do not seem to be as happy as we are. They look like they are sad, and in a hurry. They all look down at their phones and do not talk to each other.
Paul Nelson
#5. As happy as I would be to forgo the very doubtful pleasure of watching you flop about like an exhausted eel over the least cantrip," he bit out, "we've already seen the consequences of leaving you to your own devices.
Naomi Novik
#6. Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.
Thomas Paine
#7. This girl and this baby were my world, and the only things I needed out of life. I just hoped I could somehow make them as happy as they both made me.
Kirsty Moseley
#8. The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from time to time we hear the opposite, then those are just trivial religious and poetical exaggerations and ridiculous rumors, which have nothing to do with the real circumstances of the simple dead.
Hassan Blasim
#9. And then her envious heart was glad, and as happy as such a heart could be.
Jacob Grimm
#10. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
#11. Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.
Homer
#12. I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.
Susan Kay
#13. Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child ...
Dennis Prager
#14. I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure.
Edgar Allan Poe
#15. On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.
Mike Lupica
#16. We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
Mary Astell
#17. Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
William Blake
#18. The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.
Daniel Gilbert
#19. As for the pursuit of happiness on this planet: I was as happy as any human being in history. "Thank God," I thought, "that cigarette was only a dream.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.
Mark Fidrych
#21. The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.
Sue Grafton
#22. As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
Dan Stevens
#23. Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.
Albert Ellis
#25. I don't know if I would want to come back as anything but me. I feel really satisfied. I don't really want to be anyone else. I just feel like I've gotten everything I signed up for as me. I'm happy as me.
Jason Wu
#26. I hated them because they had something I had not yet had, and I said to myself, I said to myself again, someday I will be as happy as any of you, you will see.
Charles Bukowski
#27. I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.
Betty White
#28. Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
Blaise Pascal
#29. Leah Smith. That was the little beast's name. She was as rich as I was poor, as happy as I was miserable, as redheaded as I was dark.
Tarryn Fisher
#30. I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
Lillie Langtry
#31. As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child
Beth Moore
#32. My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.
Katherine Center
#33. Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.
Sai Baba
#34. You're only as happy as your least happy child,' is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.
Sarah Payne Stuart
#35. Be gentle with yourself. Think less and feel more. Be as happy as you can. You only have this moment.
Dan Millman
#36. How I loved the feasts! ... I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God! ... I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred Monstrance ...
Therese Of Lisieux
#37. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Michael Korda
#38. The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
John Lubbock
#39. My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.
Jim Gaffigan
#40. Owl felt happy as he filled his cup. It tastes a little bit salty, he said, but tear-drop tea is always very good.
Arnold Lobel
#41. Travis took a bite of the apple and chewed, looking happy as I'd ever seen him. The peace in his eyes had returned, and even as the dozens of people watched our every move, everything felt ... right.
Jamie McGuire
#42. When we score a sublime goal I'm as happy as anyone but you don't get to enjoy a game. You can't possibly. The game's too important to enjoy.
Fergus McCann
#43. A book, a good chair, my pipe, and a good bed to go to when night falls, and I'm as happy as one can be in this very trying world.
Warren Lewis
#44. Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
Bertrand Russell
#45. You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves.
Jennifer Lopez
#46. People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home.
Annie Dillard
#47. It is a Christian duty, as you know, for every-one to be as happy as he can.
C.S. Lewis
#48. We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore De Balzac
#50. I think Superman's journey is to become comfortable on earth. Of course he's got his role as earth's greatest protector but he also wants to be as happy as he can and if that happens to be with Lois then he's going to find a way.
Brandon Routh
#52. I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.
Gretchen Rubin
#53. One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.
John Steinbeck
#54. How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
#55. Around here, we're as happy as God in France.
Herman Koch
#56. God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#57. Best of all, as happy as Chip Gaines was, he seemed happiest around me.
I'm a generally happy person. My mom says I was a happy baby. But it's a fact--I was always happiest around Jo. And I still am.
Joanna Gaines
#58. Thou, sun, art half as happy as we.
John Donne
#59. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
John James Audubon
#60. By developing balance in your life, you will increase your energy, motivation, and your sense of satisfaction. In short, your happiness. Most people are as happy as they choose to be. May you choose to be very happy in 1998! SUCCESS to You ...
Gary Lockwood
#61. He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.
Sid Waddell
#62. I can't love you as much as I love you. I can't feel as happy as I am." ... "Were you as sad as you were sad? As lonely as you were lonely? I wasn't." "Me neither. I would have died of it.
Marilynne Robinson
#63. I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.
Ugo Ehiogu
#64. Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
Henri Rousseau
#65. She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.
Homer
#66. My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy - the purest joy of life.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#67. I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.
Lord Byron
#68. Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.
Mike McConathy
#69. I think no matter where you go, you'll be happy as long as you know why you're there.
Rachel Kapelke-Dale
#70. Our life, we realize, is not as happy as we have been taught to think.
Yiyun Li
#71. If ever I did a good deed in my life - if ever I thought a good thought - if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer - if ever I wished a righteous wish, - I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.
Charlotte Bronte
#72. At that age, they're as happy as they can be. Life seems endless, the sorrows few.
Henning Mankell
#73. A mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child.
Nicole Helget
#74. Being blessed with good health gives you the strength and loving what you do and - is a privilege that keeps you going. So I'm just happy as a lark.
Betty White
#75. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
Cormac McCarthy
#76. Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.
Mia Wasikowska
#77. Also learned that the ones who invented the notion that work is ennobling were the same ones who drank and ate all night long with beautiful women on their knees, the rich ones, who could be as happy as little children
Anonymous
#78. People," she sneered, "were not meant to be as happy as you make them."
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"People were meant to be as happy as you make them.
Jimmy Buffett
#79. I contend that the reason why America is not as happy as it was in 1950 or 1920 or whenever, 100 years ago, is because our priorities are wrong, but it has nothing to do with exploiting the planet and has everything to do with losing faith in God.
Glenn Beck
#80. The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.
Don Herold
#81. 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
#82. I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.
Bernhard Schlink
#83. Dug looked for a flicker of humanity in her eyes. Nope, not a spark. "Do you know," he said, "I've always thought that people are about as happy as they decide to be." "What?" "Nothing.
Angus Watson
#84. The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#85. You only as happy as you want to be
Earl Hill
#86. If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is reasonable to suppose that this is how happiness is won.
Aristotle.
#87. Who was it who had said you were only as happy as your unhappiest child?
Jojo Moyes
#88. The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straightjacket had been taken off. He felt liberated at being able to walk without flesh. The mosquitoes didn't bite him anymore. He didn't have to have his hair cut. He was neither hungry nor thirsty, hot nor cold. He was far from the lizard of love.
Leonora Carrington
#89. What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.
Joyce Meyer
#90. I love him and he loves me and we're as happy as can be.
Heather Wolf
#91. I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self.
Arthur Helps
#92. You're as happy as you allow yourself to be - so why be unhappy?
Marilyn Quayle
#93. Your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.
Brian Jacques
#94. I perceived now that there is a love deeper than theirs who seek only the happiness of their beloved. Would a father see his daughter happy as a whore? Would a woman see her lover happy as a coward?
C.S. Lewis
#95. All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.
Chris Weitz
#96. The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.
Bertrand Russell
#97. But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.
William Wordsworth
#98. If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.
Frederick Lenz
#99. Who said, 'You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' " she'd asked Ree in last week's pottery class. "Socrates," Ree answered promptly. "Really? I was thinking more along the lines of Michelle Obama.
Anne Tyler
#100. You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?'
Anne Tyler
