Not Meant To Be Happy Quotes

#1. Aristotle would clear up this moral confusion in an Athenian minute. Happiness, he believed, meant not only feeling good but doing good. Thus, the pedophile and the suicide bomber only thought they were happy. In fact, they were not happy at all.

Eric Weiner

#2. Meant to be together? Are you listening to yourself? This isn't one of your fairy tales, Fallon. This is real life, and in the real world you have to bust your ass for the happy ever after!

Colleen Hoover

#3. If she was happy, it meant she wouldn't leave him; and it had become painfully apparent over their short marriage that he was not worth the salt she sweated.

Lauren Groff

#4. I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

Heather Anastasiu

#5. Love is meant to be shared, and happy is the woman who'd willing to risk all for that.

Sherry Gore

#6. Allow yourself to be happy right now, even if outside circumstances seem imperfect. Waiting for everything to be "perfect" means delaying the happiness that you are meant to enjoy now. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy this very moment ... now.

Doreen Virtue

#7. I thought, Perhaps a man is never meant to be truly happy. Perhaps there is no such a thing in our world, after all. As

Patrick DeWitt

#8. I just wanted you to be safe," my mother says. "Do you understand that? Safe, and happy. Anything I could do ... even if it meant I couldn't be with you ...

Lauren Oliver

#9. The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.

Randy Owen

#10. If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

Melissa De La Cruz

#11. Was that all my love was, all it meant? So light, so easily gone and forgotten? Is solace that simple? And solace is not even the right word: I'm happy.

Pauline Reage

#12. Go to your happy place. Go to the house, the one with the red door and the white picket fence. Go back to where nighttime meant kisses and hugs, bedtime stories and cuddles with Buster. Go to where sunrises were promises instead of just false hope. Go to where love still lives.

J.M. Darhower

#13. I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

Jenny Hval

#14. The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color!

Jodi Livon

#15. When I was growing up I didn't know what it meant to be a happy, successful grown-up gay person, and now I do. I feel like I'm setting an example for people everywhere.

Ross Mathews

#16. Jeremy seemed happy to move up in the world, if "the world" meant high school and "moving up" meant sitting in the center of the cafeteria.

Michelle Madow

#17. If she'd ever had any doubts that she loved him, really loved him, she knew now. It was easy to love somebody when love was happy, but when it was hard, when it meant facing things you feared ... that was different. He'd done it for her, many times. And now she had to do it for him.

Rachel Caine

#18. Every time we try and get it together, something happens to pull us apart, and I can't help but feel that this is just isn't meant to be. And God knows I'm happy enough on my own, but tell me, is this how am I supposed to carry on?

Jane Green

#19. I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed to maintain life in order to be happy, and that we did not need to have quite so much destruction and misery as I saw all around and read of in the daily press.

Dorothy Day

#20. Do not rush, for God's secret is patience. Everything that is meant to be, will come at the designated time.

Leon Brown

#21. Some things are not meant to be kept forever ... You know you have to stop and let go when things aren't going right, and everything you do is unappreciated. Remember what batman said? 'it is wiser to be alone but happy ... than with somebody who does nothing while you're doing everything ... '

Noemie Lenoir

#22. This moment, this one position in time, was the happiest I will ever be as long as I am living. I have since felt it was too happy, that men are not meant to have access to this kind of satisfaction; certainly it has tempered every moment of happiness I have experienced since.

Patrick DeWitt

#23. We don't always choose our path in life, sometimes it chooses us. It might not be the smoothest ride, but you will end up where you're meant to be. Do what makes you happy, no matter what, and don't worry about the details. Details have a way of working themselves out in the end.

Ellie Grace

#24. As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

Radha Mitchell

#25. People," she sneered, "were not meant to be as happy as you make them."
...
"People were meant to be as happy as you make them.

Jimmy Buffett

#26. Not everybody can identify a purpose in life. But when you do, and when you pursue it, you will be living the kind of life you feel you were meant to live. And what's more, you will be happy.

Steve Goodier

#27. Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

Daniel Gilbert

#28. A remarkable fact of nature is that problems almost always get solved just when they are meant to. And those who can help solve the problems almost always show up at the right time.

Cynthia Rylant

#29. It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?

Fiona Mountain

#30. The mages wouldn't be happy at all if they knew you were going after him. Master Rufus - "
"Let's kill him," Call said. Havoc growled.
"Master Rufus?" Aaron looked alarmed.
"No, of course not Master Rufus! I meant Jasper," Call said.

Cassandra Clare

#31. Happy," for instance, once meant "luck." Not good luck or bad, just luck. Look what we have done to ourselves. We think we can actually pursue happiness.

Abigail Thomas

#32. If it weren't for the fact that he'd been flat on his back in a full body cast, then recovering, he probably would be glad he missed finishing the school year since it meant he's now enrolled at his version of Hogwarts.

Andrea Cremer

#33. I didn't know if he really meant talk, make out, or something else completely, but I'd be happy with any of them.

Jennifer Estep

#34. LOVE is meant to make you Happy, not sad. What's the use of Love, if it makes you mad!-RVM

R.v.m.

#35. Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

Khloe Kardashian

#36. It's a poem, of our love, that doesn't rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.

Khadija Rupa

#37. Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.

Davey Havok

#38. You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.

Emma Donoghue

#39. I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

Stark Sands

#40. It's just cool to be involved in something that's that big and joyous and meant to make people feel happy.

Andy Samberg

#41. Which meant I got left with Quinn yet again. Given the time he was taking to make his decision, I wasn't exactly happy about that. I mean, putting me with him was like flashing chocolate my way then telling me I couldn't have it. It was just plain mean.

Keri Arthur

#42. I meant - the world breaks so many of us. Maybe all of us, in the end. But everyone starts out like this. Untouched, happy. Perfect. And we put all our hopes on children, all the hopes we can't believe in for ourselves any longer.

Lilah Pace

#43. They weren't happy. The otters knew they weren't living in a real river. It wasn't the life that they were meant to live, or even wanted to live, but there was nothing they could do to change it.

Nicholas Sparks

#44. Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.

Ann Aguirre

#45. That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

David Levithan

#46. Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#47. Maybe faith was never meant to be some perfectly plotted, passion-driven paperback. Maybe faith is the long story of a happy marriage -- an average life made fuller, not smaller, by the pockets of silence and darkness that break into it.

Addie Zierman

#48. As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

Etgar Keret

#49. I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it.

Robert McCammon

#50. Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

Anna Torv

#51. You deserve to be happy, he said. And meant it. She deserved the joy he so often glimpsed on her face when Rowan was near - deserved the wicked laughter she shared with Aedion, the comfort and teasing with Lysandra. She deserved happiness, perhaps more than anyone.

Sarah J. Maas

#52. When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

Susan Cheever