Top 100 Happy Human Quotes
#1. I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.
Shailene Woodley
#2. In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.
Tony Robbins
#3. Her voice changed slightly as she remembered, "But most he loved a happy human face.
Louise Penny
#4. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin
#5. So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.
Dave Matthews
#6. I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.
Candis Cayne
#7. And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for that.
Sylvain Reynard
#8. If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a disease. That is why it is very important to keep your power level high, just to be a happy human being.
Frederick Lenz
#9. There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.' Ruskin
Michael Oakeshott
#10. People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.
Felix Dennis
#11. What makes us human is not only the fact that we suffer, but also because we aspire to be happy." - Ashutosh in the Book "Songs of the Mist
Shashi
#12. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
C. JoyBell C.
#13. I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human being save a servant to bring you in bread and fruit and water twice a day.
G.A. Henty
#14. Yeah, I'm just here for - I stop for a second, because I'm not sure how to finish the line out loud. To see if I can ever be happy, or even remotely human, again. Would you happen to have the magic cure?
Daisy Whitney
#15. I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.
James Watson
#16. The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy.
Maggie Nelson
#17. Never would I have guessed I'd fall so comfortably into the role of husband and father. Never would I have guessed I'd be married to a human. And I certainly wouldn't have guessed I'd be so happy without spirit.
Richelle Mead
#18. That's exactly the good thing about the Injun life
you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'
which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks
Jim Fergus
#19. Wherever two human beings are alive, together, and happy, there is the center of the world.
Edward Abbey
#20. I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.
Emeril Lagasse
#21. Voclain needs an heir." "As she lacks the anatomical structures to lay an egg, my human issue will have to inherit." "Voclain is a Bloodkin legacy, one of the oldest - " "Then, mother, I suggest you get cracking and give me a brother. He can have Voclain. I'm going to be happy.
Erin Kellison
#22. The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
Mark Twain
#23. There is something about the human condition. I don't think dogs are like "If only I was a poodle instead of a golden retriever, I'd be totally happy." Dogs are happy with who they are.
Michael Ian Black
#25. I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
Edward Abbey
#26. From the outside, I seem happy a lot. But, I'm human and it's not possible to always be happy.
Park Bom
#27. Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It's only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.
Richard Bach
#28. Down the mountain we shall go and down the passes, and as the valleys open the world will open, Utopia, where men and women are happy and laws are wise, and where all that is tangled and confused in human affairs has been unravelled and made right.
H.G.Wells
#29. The werewolf Senate hadn't been happy with the idea of a human alpha, and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about the fact that I had something most male Weres wanted very, very badly ... Maddy. Lake. Lily, Katie, Sloane, Avie, Sophie ...
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#30. When you awaken love and laughter, your mind let's go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience.
Barbara Kingsolver
#31. Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!
Cesare Beccaria
#32. I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.
Atul Gawande
#33. Happy but isn't the human factor what connexus a deeply to our past will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individuals not so different from themselves.
Max Brooks
#34. If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
Ralph Merkle
#35. It is the small trivial things in life that makes a human happy, like opening a pickle jar.
KanyaACoffman
#36. Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.
Richard Francis Burton
#37. It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.
It's not about being rich or poor, it's about being alive and happy.
It's not about being right, it's about being considerate and compassionate.
Karen L. Syed
#38. Happiest day of my life when my dad made him human. (Devyn)
Happy for you, bonebag ... It cost me my girlfriend. (Vik)
It was a lamp, Vik, not a girlfriend. (Devyn)
I really loved that lamp. She lit up my entire world. (Vik)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#39. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy,
Viktor E. Frankl
#40. Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.
Margaret Heffernan
#41. Forgive yourself for being an imperfect human being. The goddess doesn't expect perfection, although she does expect you to try and do better. Allow yourself to be happy. Live the life you want, and follow the path of your heart.
Deborah Blake
#42. As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
Stephen Richards
#43. Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#44. Wherever there's a happy vacuum caused by an absence of misery, human beings rush in to fill it.
Harvey Stanbrough
#45. Happiness is our one ultimate end. Boil it right the way down, reduce all those motivational drivers, and sitting right there at the centre of our very human hearts, is our yearning to be happy.
Simon Pont
#46. There is something wonderful in accepting someone else's flaws especially when it gives you the chance to accept your own and see that those flaws are the things that make us human.
Jenny Lawson
#47. There is a lot of talking in human culture," Venomous told the other male in a low aside. "They debate everything and need words to calm them. I wager there is much talking during this custom. Watch me as I make our mate happy with words.
Penelope Fletcher
#48. I pray for my children. That they stay safe and make good decisions. That they be happy, thoughtful, and caring human beings. That they have the strength to get up if they fall down.
Terry McMillan
#49. Whether people are beautiful and friendly or unattractive and disruptive, ultimately they are human beings, just like oneself. Like oneself, they want happiness and do not want suffering. Furthermore, their right to overcome suffering and be happy is equal to one's own.
Dalai Lama XIV
#50. Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.
Whoopi Goldberg
#51. Often the depths of human misery can be found amongst legions of happy people.
Russ Woody
#52. For happiness don't pursue satisfaction, but pursue heroism.
Amit Kalantri
#53. The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.
Frederick Lenz
#54. And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.
Chico Hamilton
#55. In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
Harlan Coben
#56. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde
#57. She was a bibliophile - she would be perfectly happy never talking to another human being again as long as she had books to read.
Brenda L. Harper
#58. For they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.
Louisa May Alcott
#59. There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#60. White: We were born in such a fix as this. Suffering and human destiny are the same thing. Each is a description of the other.
Black: We aint talkin about sufferin. We talkin about bein happy.
White: Well you cant be happy if you're in pain.
Black: Why not?
Cormac McCarthy
#61. I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.
H.L. Mencken
#62. To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.
Robert Burns
#63. I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country ... No other country has such human capital.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#64. The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.
Joy Gardner
#65. All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
Enoch Powell
#66. I only put down on paper what works for me, and since I started out as a human train wreck, the ways I've learned to be happy also work for others.
Martha N. Beck
#67. A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#68. As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
Rem Koolhaas
#69. 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
#70. Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.
Frederick Lenz
#71. If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see
what makes the human heart happy?
Is it art or is it sex?
Or is it, as I suspect, just keeping going
from next thing to next thing
to next thing to next thing
to next to next to next to next
pulsating stupidly to outlast time?
Dan Chiasson
#72. Bless
their believing happiness will make them happy;
that the ocean is magical, a kingdom
where we go to be human,
and grateful.
Philip Schultz
#73. Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone is worth substantially more than a human life. Happy new year.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#74. All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.
Margaret Way
#75. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
#76. He himself didn't see it as exceptionally altruistic, because he had understood one can't be truly happy in isolation or, worse, among unhappy people. The best protection against danger, unhappiness and the sordidness of human existence is to be surrounded by people who love you.
Andrew Ashling
#77. And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera
#78. I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.
Delia Sherman
#79. Hedonic Engineering
The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?
Robert J. Wilson
#80. No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.
Jen Lancaster
#81. Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.
Dalai Lama
#82. The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.
J.I. Packer
#83. I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
Peter McWilliams
#84. I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.
Lauren Bacall
#85. The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.
Dalai Lama
#86. Human beings appear to be happy just so long as they have a future to which they can look forward - whether it be a "good time" tomorrow or an everlasting life beyond the grave.
Alan W. Watts
#87. I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.
Diana Quick
#88. It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.
Andrew Sean Greer
#89. Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
Kelly LeBrock
#90. I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smack people in the face and say, 'Wake up!'
Daron Malakian
#91. The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.
L.M. Montgomery
#92. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
Kurt Vonnegut
#93. Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.
Mark Webber
#94. arrow goes foreword after being pulled backward. A bullet goes forward after the trigger being pulled backwards. Every human being will be happy only after they face their difficulties in their path...So don't be afraid to face them for they will push you forward
Unknown
#95. Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev
#96. While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.
James E. Faust
#97. Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.
John Ralston Saul
#98. The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.
David O. McKay
#99. Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, and to love.
Miguel Ruiz
#100. I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.
Goldie Hawn
