Top 100 Much Happier Quotes
#1. I wonder," said Miss Oliver, "if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it." "After
L.M. Montgomery
#2. Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
Dalai Lama
#3. I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all. If I'd a child like Anne in the house all the time I'd be a better and happier woman.
L.M. Montgomery
#4. It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.
Neil Patrick Harris
#5. If we magnified our successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much happier
Abraham Lincoln
#6. If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.
Peter McWilliams
#7. Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU. [Suicide note. ]
Kurt Cobain
#8. Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#9. I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.
Douglas Wood
#10. 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
#11. So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn't know, and I didn't have any way to find out.
Guys don't talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.
Kami Garcia
#12. I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!
Sophie Kinsella
#13. I'll treasure every day that I have with you. For I've known what life was like before you and..and since you, and as far as I'm concerned, these are two different lives. And one makes me so very much happier that the other.
John Shors
#14. I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read.
Robert Gottlieb
#15. I'm better when I'm busy. I am happier. I am a bit useless when I'm not busy. I start thinking too much, which is never a good thing. When I'm busy I have a better perspective on what really matters - the priorities.
Richard Coyle
#16. It's just, sometimes lies look so much like the truth. And when you can't tell between the two, how do you know which one will make you happy? Maybe the lie will make you happier. And if you're happier with the lie, would you really want to know the truth?
Cindi Madsen
#17. I'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better at handling them.
Dave Chappelle
#18. If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street ...
David Bowie
#19. My life may be much happier to-morrowHunger and love that press against the body,The two eternal needs we recognise,Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,May get me down or raise me to the skiesAnd make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.
Gavin Ewart
#20. I am so much happier when I am doing the things that make me me, and that's living by my standards and doing the things I love, using my talents, however random they are, to share with other people. That's what makes me happy.
Lindsey Stirling
#21. Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
Mary Wesley
#22. I have often thought how much happier I should have been if, instead of accepting a command under such Circumstances, I should have taken my musket upon my Shoulder & entered the Ranks or ... had retir'd to the back country & lived in a Wig-wam. - GEORGE WASHINGTON
Joseph J. Ellis
#23. Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier, his mother said to him.
Paul Bowles
#24. Ironically, girls who don't think so much about their family and are a little bit self-centred are not only happier themselves but also maintain good relationships with their families.
Farahad Zama
#25. That's the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they might cause; they give back in strength and comfort and joy, believe it or not, and the more connections you make, the happier you are, the more point there is to getting up and getting through the day.
Gregory Galloway
#26. 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
#27. Otherwise he'll always be worrying about what she thinks of him. It's her eyes on him that make him so afraid of his magic. He'd be much happier and less worried without her around. As would I, frankly. I don't particularly like dragons who point sharp things at me.
Tui T. Sutherland
#28. Gettimg attached to things is pointless. Thats how things get screwed up.People care to much about everything. Let it go. You'll be happier.
Nick Burd
#29. If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.
Sylvia Plath
#30. 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
#31. If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.
John Wooden
#32. Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.
Jake Shimabukuro
#33. I was much happier when I had less responsibility ... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
Robert Rauschenberg
#35. I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.
Thomas Jefferson
#36. How much happier we should be,' she thought to herself sadly, 'if we never grew up!
Wilkie Collins
#37. People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Elon Musk
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.
Michael Robotham
#41. 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
#42. We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.
William Kingdon Clifford
#43. I was silly to care, or to even try when all was dusted. I look back now, stronger and happier than ever before with no absolutely no regrets to a path with so much more, a path where I could have done much better, in which I will, laughing at the past with no regret.
X
#44. Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception.
"Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?
Diana Gabaldon
#45. RVM Thoughts for Today -
If only I had spent my life Smiling and Laughing rather than regretting and cursing , I would have been much Happier.
R.v.m.
#46. I'm not looking to fail you. I don't teach with the hope everyone will play games on their phone during lectures and then skate by with Cs." "If you did, you'd probably be much happier." "I'm going to ignore that.
Dahlia Adler
#47. I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.
Dalai Lama
#48. If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.
William Glasser
#49. No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.
Martin Luther
#50. As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.
Kristen Stewart
#51. I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.
Edward Hirsch
#52. I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.
Matthew Sweet
#53. There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.
Paul Rudd
#54. I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
Kaley Cuoco
#55. Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.
John Wooden
#56. In the large sense, I have to disagree with Bakunin, one thing austerity rhetoric has suggested is that when the people are being beaten with a stick, they are much happier if the media call it the People's Democratic Stick.
Bruno De Oliveira
#57. I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are.
Shirin Ebadi
#58. How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#59. He exuded the air of someone who hated this earth and everything on it and would be much happier if it just broke free of its orbit and hurled itself into the sun.
Gina Damico
#60. Had I known anything about the elegance of quitting at the right time, I would have made so many people, starting with myself and Dennis, so much happier.
Ann Patchett
#61. I feel much better to give than to receive. That's why I'm much more happier now as a coach than I ever was as a fighter.
Duane Ludwig
#62. That's what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible ... I tell them to follow their bliss. The people who follow their bliss in this world tend to be the more happier people.
Art Alexakis
#63. It's your body and you're going to have a much better life, you are going to have a quality life, better lifestyle, you're going to be healthier, you're going to be happier, you're going to enjoy the people around you and they're going to enjoy you more.
Mike Ditka
#64. If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
Evelyn Waugh
#65. I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter ... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
Veronica Lake
#66. Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.
Jacqueline Emerson
#67. I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found ... I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Samuel R. Delany
#68. We all will live much happier when we will learn to love and serve each other.
Debasish Mridha
#69. I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.
Nick Offerman
#70. I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.
Crystal Reed
#71. I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
Phil Collins
#72. Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
Paris Hilton
#74. When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
Dorothy Day
#75. She was prisoner to an old, forgotten god, kept from her home, probably never to see it again, and yet ... the way she sat, poised, calm, clear like a full moon night, she seemed much happier than me, the witch who contained them all, the jailer with the magic key.
Sarah Diemer
#76. My wife says I'm much happier when I'm not a regular on a TV show.
Alan Dale
#77. I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.
Jake Shears
#78. If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
Thomas A. Edison
#79. Don't live to be unhappy, live to be happy. If you live to be happy you'll find the things that make you happy. And as you do that you find that sharing with others makes you much happier than taking from them.
Goswami Kriyananda
#80. Men and women alike, if you think that altering the tip of your nose with surgery will make you happier, I would suggest you alter something much more malleable than your flesh, like your priorities, or your friends.
Nick Offerman
#81. But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I drive home. I'm like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It's made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years.
Dax Shepard
#82. Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.
Paula Wall
#83. The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.
Bill Irwin
#84. I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.
Michelangelo Antonioni
#85. Self-love is the most important love to have. When we love ourselves we're much happier and need less from others. There can still be loneliness, rejection, and loss in our lives, but we handle these things much better when we're happy with who we are.
Darryl Duke
#86. If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives.
Beau Sides
#87. In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#88. Sometimes, the medication that lifts depression also kills our drive and mutes our orgasms. So sex suffers either way: be happier on meds and feel dead "down there," or be miserable because you can't get out of bed much less want to get back in.
Laurie Watson
#89. If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.
Daniel Willey
#90. I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.
Kurt Cobain
#91. I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.
Geraldine Brooks
#92. When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all.
Rudolf Dreikurs
#93. The down side these days is thinking that, "I can do this all on my own". Yes, you can do this on your own but you'll be a much happier human being if you do it with other human beings.
Mick Fleetwood
#94. I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#95. Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
Karen Salmansohn
#96. When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.
Ewan McGregor
#97. The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.
Ryan Gosling
#98. One secret of happiness in life is to know the very basic of life economy, deciding what kind of life you want and knowing how much you need to achieve just that. The earlier you know how much is enough the better and happier you will be in life.
Tim I. Gurung
#99. The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I'm much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy.
Jason Collins
#100. People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can't
Stephen Fry
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