Top 100 Happy But Quotes
#1. Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.
Samuel Johnson
#2. I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.
C. JoyBell C.
#3. I'm from a neighborhood that isn't amazing - it's not the worst, either - and I was happy. But Atlanta is just one area of a country. There's a world out there I wanna touch.
Shameik Moore
#4. Money doesn't make u happy .. But happy makes you money..
Russell Simmons
#5. Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.
Blake Edwards
#6. She didn't like to think she was so shallow that a mere dress could make her happy, but she had to concede that it gave her a new sense of self-confidence.
Julia Quinn
#7. It is ... courage to choose not what will make us happy, but what is precious.
Sofia Samatar
#8. Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
G.K. Chesterton
#9. She was smiling. She looked happy, but that didn't mean anything. She always looked happy...
Rainbow Rowell
#10. I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard
Sepp Blatter
#11. Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
George Bernard Shaw
#12. So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.
Margaret Atwood
#13. He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.
Don DeLillo
#14. They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much. Everyone smiles for a photograph.
Marisha Pessl
#15. Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
Herodotus
#16. The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
Herbert Read
#17. You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Tracy Kidder
#19. I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.
Alyssa Brugman
#20. The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#21. Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.
Arthur C. Clarke
#22. The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.
Saint Augustine
#23. I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must be happy.' But then again, maybe I'm in denial.
Alexandra Cassavetes
#24. It's not like if I play in big places I won't be happy. But I don't want to start adapting to what's in style to make my music. I want to stay true to my roots, to keep making the music I love, that comes from my soul. And if there are people who want to listen to it, I'm happy.
Juanes
#25. People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
Eckhart Tolle
#26. In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#27. Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of the things that make you unhappy.
Robert Anthony
#28. By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.
Michael Sheen
#29. I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
Karel Appel
#30. Doesn't just about everybody disappoint their parents? They say all they want is for us to be happy, but what they really want is for us to be their do-over. Their second chance at life.
Eileen Cook
#31. I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could ... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.
David Soul
#32. Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Samuel Johnson
#33. When people come up to me and say 'oh, your singing made me cry', it's nice to realise that you're making other people happy, but I don't know how I do it. I just sing.
Faryl Smith
#34. Money doesn't make you happy... but it sure doesn't make you said either!" - Nate Temple
Shayne Silvers
#35. 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
#36. Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#37. Success makes me happy, but it doesn't give me peace. Because I do believe that success is not enough for our cause. We are born to struggle and nothing must deceive us.
M.F. Moonzajer
#38. Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
#39. The freedom that money gives you makes you ... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
Paloma Faith
#40. I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
Maggie Smith
#41. Finn is my happy. But he can't be the only source. I'll drown that way.
Kristen Callihan
#42. It doesn't take much to make me happy, but the simplest things are sometimes the hardest to get. But when if finally arrives, heaven help those who try to take it away from me.
Jaime Reed
#43. Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
Hannah Cowley
#44. Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.
Frederick Lenz
#45. He smiles. it nearly breaks my heart. I know that smile. It's a memory that's tainted, something that should have been happy but didn't turn out that way.
H.M. Ward
#46. It's great to be happy, but not all the time. Let yourself feel. When you're sad let yourself cry, when you're mad let yourself scream. Experience your emotions, feel them. Just do not remain there with them. - Sheila Burke
Bryant McGill
#47. Beauty, like love, makes us happy, but we have to be keenly receptive to the seduction. Until
Alexandra Stoddard
#48. When I'm creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.
Nino Rota
#49. Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.
Phil Jones
#50. I know you weren't born to make people happy, but if you did one day someone else will make you happy too.
Amna.s
#51. It seems incredible that a man possessing so many conditions of happiness should be not only so little happy, but clearly does not see the reason why he should exist at all. It
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#52. I know I can't make everyone happy, but I know I can do the most justice I can possibly do to a character, or any character, if I put my all into it. That's the choice you have to make.
Henry Cavill
#53. Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.
Robert Kiyosaki
#54. I thought I was looking for something. Now I get that I was looking for someone. You. I'll go back to school and get my degree because it will make you happy. But also because it will make me the kind of man you want. This all about you, Aurelia. Don't you get that?
Susan Mallery
#55. Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with being happy; but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise.
Aristotle.
#56. People are going to judge you for all kinds of reasons for the rest of your life. Because you vote one way or the other, because you go to one school or the other, because you look a certain way. It's a fact of life: you can't make everyone happy. But you can make you happy
Leah Rae Miller
#57. It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
#58. A simple life can make you happy, but taking a few risks along the way can also make it fun. This could all end badly, but for now, I'm going to enjoy it for what it is.
Lisa De Jong
#59. To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.
Criss Jami
#61. To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
Viktor E. Frankl
#62. We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it ...
Rajneesh
#64. Fairy tale doesn't always have a happy ending. But still, it's a fairy tale.
So does first love. It might not be happy, but it doesn't have always to be sad. It's just love.
Dian Purnomo
#65. I'm not sure I know how to feel happy yet. Well, I mean sometimes when I look at the stars I think I might feel happy ... but
Jessica Sorensen
#66. Luckily the script [of X-files episode] was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.
Rhys Darby
#67. A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.
Seth Godin
#68. Sometimes we talked the whole night long, as one does only in adolescence or very early in love. I was happy, but also I felt an anxiety that gnawed at me and for which I could find no cause, that gnawed at me more deeply precisely because I could find no cause.
Garth Greenwell
#69. We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.
Sharon Salzberg
#70. It was because she was drinking a lot, choosing to do these things to be happy but never seeming all that happy the next day, or the one after that.
Katie Heaney
#72. Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
Sean O'Casey
#73. Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#74. I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#75. Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.
Charlie Chaplin
#76. I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.
Mary J. Blige
#77. Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Alexander Pope
#78. I love her and we make each other happy. But if our happiness makes so many people unhappy, is it the right thing to do?
Chetan Bhagat
#79. Earth is sad, Moon is shy, Sun is happy but wait a moment, I just forgot to tell you that I am the child of open sky.
Santosh Kalwar
#81. How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face ... I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.
Therese Of Lisieux
#82. Our faith is watered and we flourish when we reach out to others in love. We think good times and comfort will make us happy. But history shows that the people who are filled with the most joy and contentment are those who reach out to others-despite tough times
Laurie Ostby Kehler
#83. All through the workday something was nagging at the back of his head, and he didn't know what it was. He misplaced things. He forgot things. At one point, he started singing at his desk, not because he was happy, but because he forgot not to.
Neil Gaiman
#84. The truth is people think that change in life is supposed to make you happy but in reality; change is scary".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#85. I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!
Chris Colfer
#86. As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.
Mason Cooley
#87. Hmm, limelight ... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.
Eva Green
#88. [Grace talking to Billy.] "It's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad," she said. "It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose. At least, I don't think so.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#89. The remaining, less developed characters, were still either listening or laughing. They were divided between curiosity and satisfaction. They felt happy, but did not know it.
Elias Canetti
#90. Smiles aren't always happy, but hers is. It's open, content, and confident.
Kim Holden
#91. She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.
Patricia Highsmith
#92. He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.
Jane Austen
#93. You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
Franz Schubert
#94. I figured we could get by on what we got. Not enough to make us happy, but enough to keep going.
Neil Gaiman
#95. I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.
Carrie Underwood
#96. ... I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.
Roberto Bolano
#97. Bartleby is never happy, but he never can be, you know. Life in general offends him. Happiness is something that happens to other people, because life happens to Bartleby. It happens to him frequently and unwarrantedly, and every time he is forced to suffer it, he is always disappointed.
Michelle Franklin
#98. I miss you when you're not there. When you're happy, it makes me happy. But I could say the same thing about Charlie, Jacob. You're family. I love you, but I'm not in love with you.
Stephenie Meyer
#100. There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.
Anne Hathaway
