Top 100 How Happy Quotes
#1. And on the subject of naming animals, can I just say how happy I was to discover that the word yeti, literally translated, apparently means "that thing over there."
("Quick, brave Himalayan Guide - what's that thing over there?"
"Yeti."
"I see.")
Neil Gaiman
#2. Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.
Haruki Murakami
#4. Acting so obviously submissive to Max around strangers, I felt a lot of humiliation. The looks from people, the comments. But I also felt this strange sense of pride. I am his possession, his property. And I'm proud of that. I'm proud of how happy I make him.
Willow Madison
#5. When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
Harri Holkeri
#6. The quality of your thoughts and the state of your mind will define how happy you are as a person. Happiness in your life comes from the way you think!
Sanchita Pandey
#7. How happy I might be, if only she was less greedy, better tempered, not addicted to raking up old grudges, more affectionate, with slightly yellower hair, slimmer, and about twenty years younger! But what is the good of expecting such a woman to reform?
John Collier
#8. The predominant quality of successful people is optimism ... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
Brian Tracy
#9. If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy
Amy Lee
#10. They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.
Paulo Coelho
#11. The silences between us would've been better if they were colored with sadness or regret, but it was worse - I could hear how happy he was to be gone.
Emma Cline
#12. The first to greet me was Robbie McNeill, who jumped up from his post at the helm and said, "Welcome aboard, Captain! I cannot tell you how happy I am to meet you!" His handsome Celtic face shone with mischief, and I felt the first gladdening of a spontaneous friendship.
Kate Mulgrew
#13. Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.
Glenn Beck
#14. I would advocate that you show me your smiling face, and how happy you can make your life.
Andy Biersack
#15. Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.
Eugene H. Peterson
#16. It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life ... I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.
Francesca Annis
#17. I can only imagine how happy life would be if we could stay so grounded in our faith that we would never waver in our positive attitudes.
Tracie Miles
#18. I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.
Jessie J.
#19. There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.
Martin Luther
#20. You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.
Frederick Lenz
#21. I almost can't even put to words how happy I am that I got married.
Mike Birbiglia
#22. I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.
SARK
#23. The profound realization, thanks to the practice of Stoicism, that acquiring the things that those in my social circle typically crave and work hard to afford will, in the long run, make zero difference in how happy I am and will in no way contribute to my having a good life.
William B. Irvine
#24. If I gave you now, $10 as a gift, how happy would you be? Would you be happy, is the marginal $10, the best use of $10 you can use? Of course not. If I have you a CD, you know exactly what you are getting and you will have a value for it. So, money has lots of problems with it.
Dan Ariely
#25. I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.
Bridget Davis
#27. How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who make up the crowd!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#28. Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.
Jan Karon
#29. It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.
Andrea Barrett
#30. No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written ... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.
Don McLean
#31. How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
Carlo Collodi
#32. In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!
Carlo Collodi
#33. I've really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can't even express to you how happy it has made me.
Carrie Ann Inaba
#34. How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
William Cowper
#35. No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.
Jen Lancaster
#36. How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!
John Gay
#37. My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.
Marion Cotillard
#38. No matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.
David Levithan
#39. You are many years late; how happy I am to see you
Anna Akhmatova
#40. To come home and have three songs working on radio, I can't tell you how happy I am. It is amazing.
Conrad Sewell
#41. And most of all we smile at each other as if we can't believe how happy we feel just being together just breathing in the same space.
Alice J. Wisler
#42. Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.
Ronald Reagan
#43. No matter how happy you are; start assuming, suspecting and doubting; and make yourself the most unhappy person on the universe.
Suman Pokhrel
#44. It's all about emotions, they rule us all. The way we perceive reality is linked to how happy or sad we are, it even affects our perception of time, so this is an emotional problem and I am unable to fathom it at all.
Steve Merrick
#45. But reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared.
Philip K. Dick
#46. If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.
Lauren Myracle
#47. How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.
Brother Lawrence
#48. How happy a thing were a wedding,
And a bedding,
If a man might purchase a wife
For a twelvemonth and a day
Thomas Flatman
#49. Following the road down to Maienfeld, she said to herself, "If only I can meet the Spring, how happy I shall be."
Today, she thought of the Spring as a gay messenger boy and smilingly she imagined him "in a beautiful apple green suit with daisies studding his shoes" as it says in the song.
Charles Tritten
#50. A beautiful bright blue sky; up above so high; how happy i am; to feel fully satisfied.
Santosh Kalwar
#51. Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! It's all vanity, it's all an illusion, everything except that infinite sky.
Leo Tolstoy
#52. It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.
Emanuel Ax
#54. I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.
Hugh Prather
#55. Is it always like this?" Dawson whispered. "This buzz in my stomach and my chest - how happy I am to hold you? Does it always feel like this?" Jared lifted his face in the dark, his lower lip full and swollen from kisses, his eyes shiny. "No," he said soberly. "No. This is special.
Amy Lane
#56. You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
Jack London
#57. And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.
Charles Dickens
#58. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?
Philip K. Dick
#59. Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#61. In all I wish, how happy should I be,
Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee?
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise;
And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
Jonathan Swift
#62. With chaste affections man and wife In solemn wedlock it entwines. Love's laws most trusty comrades bind. How happy is the human race, 30 If Love, by which the heavens are ruled, To rule men's minds is set in place!
Boethius
#63. I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me.
Jojo Moyes
#64. Hera had no option but to agree to the terms. Everyone left happy. Well, not Hera, but I didn't give a shit how happy she was.
Steve McHugh
#65. Our Lord Jesus was not above letting folk minister to Him, for he knew how happy it makes one to do aught for another. It's the happiest work in earth.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#66. How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.
Henry Wotton
#67. You will think that they ought to have been very happy. And so they were, but they did not know HOW happy till the pretty life in the Red Villa was over and done with, and they had to live a very different life indeed. The
E. Nesbit
#68. I was right." She dropped the sword and grabbed Helen in a hug. Then she started jumping up and down, making Helen jump with her. "You're not dead! This is ... You have no idea how happy I am I didn't just kill you!" she squealed.
Josephine Angelini
#69. How happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning, if the dregs of a cup of wine were as sweet as the first sip.
W. Somerset Maugham
#70. Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.
Jacqueline Woodson
#71. How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.
Phyllis McGinley
#72. If you could know how happy I am, as Jesus' little spouse. No one ... could I envy, because I am enjoying my complete happiness, even when I suffer something for my beloved Spouse.
Brian Kolodiejchuk
#73. You don't ever know how happy you are until you remember how sad you once were and vice versa. Nothing is anything until I decide to hold nothing next to something, and declare that I see a difference.
Andrea Seigel
#74. We are not to practice Bible reading, fasting, solitude, prayer, and other disciplines to make God happy with us but to make space to hear how happy God is with us because of Jesus.
Jimmy Davis
#75. I am like a wounded animal in a remote isolated place - How wonderful! - How happy!
Dalai Lama
#76. But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,
O! its quite beyond what you can understand.
Ann Radcliffe
#77. How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost?
Dan Barker
#78. I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#79. I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything.
Daphne Zuniga
#80. How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.
John Armstrong
#81. I want you to know how happy you once made me and though you really did hurt me, in the end, I was better for it. I don't know if what we had was love, but if it wasn't, I hope never to fall in love. Because of you, I know I am too fragile to bear it.
Lang Leav
#82. I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.
Adam Silvera
#83. It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?
Lyle Lovett
#84. I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#85. Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
And so I put this on my life
Nobody or nothing will ever come between us
And I promise I'll give my life
Jay-Z
#86. Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.
Johnny Mercer
#87. There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.
Dennis Prager
#88. I promised to never leave you in this world alone, no matter how happy you are without me i shall keep my promise ever and will be there for you when all leave you. That's my love for you.
Debolina
#89. Had many men spent but half that time in secret prayer, that they have spent in seeking after the philosopher's stone, how happy might they have been!
Thomas Brooks
#90. The most important thing in a kitchen isn't how delectable the food is but how happy you are while you're there.
Kyung-ran Jo
#91. Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
Alexander Pope
#93. Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!
Vincent De Paul
#94. It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.
J.J. Abrams
#95. The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#96. Maybe that's all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn't. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.
Lisa Unger
#97. Confidence is not posting endless selfies, or repeatedly protesting how happy or in love we are, it's a subtle yet noticeable sheen that emanates from our being - our eyes, our words, our body language.
Sam Owen
#98. When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.
Shakira
#99. O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!
Peter Julian Eymard
#100. What some people don't understand about new clothes is it's not about the clothes. It's the promise of how happy you'll be when you wear them, the wonderful things you'll be doing in them, how people will look at you and say, yes, there's a woman who really likes herself.
Kristan Higgins
