Top 100 Only Happy Quotes
#1. One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
Milton S. Hershey
#2. I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
Larry David
#3. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A.A. Milne
#4. Many of us live that life where we are only happy when there's a good day passing by, instead of being sad when there's one bad day passing leaving us confused.
Auliq Ice
#5. Clearly, this is an historic form of waterboarding, and, interestingly, the professional torturers of the Inquisition were not only happy to define it as a form of torture, but by the early 1600s had abandoned it in favour of methods they 'regarded as more merciful'.46
Robert Goodwin
#6. Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.
Roald Dahl
#7. I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.
John Fowles
#8. We're only happy--truly happy--when it's forever after, but only children live in a world where things can last forever.
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#9. You are only happy in life if you forget the bad things and focus on the good things
Jeroen Saey
#10. I don't give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I'm only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.
Christian Louboutin
#11. What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#12. It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls.
Dwight L. Moody
#13. There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.
Orison Swett Marden
#14. To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
P.G. Wodehouse
#15. The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.
Sylvester Stallone
#16. The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. ABRAHAM MASLOW
Mark Sanborn
#17. I m only happy when it rains
Garbage
#18. Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.
Guy Sajer
#19. Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.
Larry David
#20. A lot of people who are straight-shooting ... they're only happy to be so blunt when talking about others. They're not so upfront about who they are, what flaws they have, and what their issues are.
Suzanne Wright
#21. The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.
Washington Irving
#23. There are no perfect days, only happy moments in time when each of us can reaffirm our own truth.
Gulfrey Clarke
#24. He drew some relief from knowing that she was happy doing whatever the hell it was she did. Sometimes it seemed to him she was the only happy person he knew, and that frightened him so badly it made him want to curl up and die.
Arlene Hunt
#25. There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.
Bob Ross
#26. Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.
Emmy Rossum
#28. When we do something we like, we are not only happy. We are also very strong!
Rossana Condoleo
#29. If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life.
Gloria Jones
#30. Why are the only happy endings the ones where the couples get together?" I ask. "Can't they just be friends? Can't that be a happy ending too?
Ted Michael
#31. Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.
Patton Oswalt
#32. Everything isn't fixable, and miracles are only happy twists of fate. Fate can so easily twist in the opposite direction.
Tammara Webber
#33. If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!
Dalai Lama XIV
#34. There was something very wrong with Bradley Somers. He thought in puzzle pieces and manipulations. He dreamed in darkness and blood dripping onto the carpet. He was only happy in the deepest misery. He found joy in the terrible.
A Meredith Walters
#35. The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
Leo Tolstoy
#36. Out of the seething crowd, out of the light and the darkness, came Blossom Rosedale, the one and only Happy Monster, which was a name that she had given herself, not because she loathed the way she looked but because she was truly happy in spite of all her suffering.
Dean Koontz
#37. Abraham Maslow, the man who gave us Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, once said: "The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
Brad Hams
#39. The only happy people in the world
are those who do not have to write long poems
John Berryman
#40. These broke rappers always rappin bout a pink truck. I'm only happy when I'm hoppin out the Brinks truck.
Nicki Minaj
#41. [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
#42. There are no happy endings there are only happy people.
Dorothy Gilman
#43. The only happy and relevant people are those who have learnt to walk with change
Vinita Dawra Nangia
#44. I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
Akio Morita
#45. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.
Jonathan Tropper
#46. There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell behind me and only left a friend.
Angeles Kossio
#47. We each have a handful of those moments, the ones we take out to treasure only rarely, like jewels, when we looked up from our lives and realized: I'm happy.
Tim Kreider
#48. But shall we be happy, to say that we live in the dusk rather than in the full night? Shall we rejoice that we shall only suffer, while your offspring will be the ones to know the torments of the damned? Shall this be why we do not act?
Robin Hobb
#49. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.
Thomas More
#50. 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
#51. Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in what is not a relief from what is. Now the real, now illusion is our refuge; and the soul has finally no other resource but the true, which is her weapon
and falsehood, which is her armor.
Paul Valery
#53. I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
Gary Numan
#54. When joy is LOST, hope can easily FIND it ... It's only your HOPE, that knows the where about of your JOY! If you lose hope you lose everything!
Israelmore Ayivor
#55. To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.
Smiley Blanton
#56. I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
Iain Banks
#57. The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
T. J. Miller
#58. The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
Anton Chekhov
#59. If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.
Chris Prentiss
#60. I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#61. I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!
Fabio Capello
#62. Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
John Milton
#63. I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.
Sylvia Plath
#64. My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough.
Diana Rose Morcilla
#65. Waking up next to you is what I like the most, knowing that you belong only to me makes me very happy. Being with you is all I need to be happy.
Auliq Ice
#66. A new year brings not only happiness, it makes us happy with a hope to fulfill our dreamz or a new beginning of our life. So, a new year is very special to everyone.
Santonu Kumar Dhar
#67. It was no picnic despite what anyone might say later ... Most of us were pretty scared all the bloody time; you only felt happy when the battle was over and you were on your way home, then you were safe for a bit, anyway.
Colin S. Gray
#68. Epic love story has only love between two people but do not have 'they lived happily ever after
Santosh Avvannavar
#69. I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.
Gary Player
#70. People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.
Augusten Burroughs
#71. You people in all parts of the world, who have passed away over the ages, you did not live only to fertilize the earth with your ashes, so that at the end of time your descendants could become happy through European culture
Johann Gottfried Herder
#72. finding what made you happy was only the beginning of the journey - figuring out how to keep it often proved to be the unreachable destination.
Brooke McKinley
#73. The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
Milan Kundera
#74. You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.
Nia Vardalos
#75. You're the only one who could have ever met my standards for her, Miles. I'm happy it's you.
Colleen Hoover
#76. People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know it's their birthday because Facebook told them.
Caroline Kepnes
#77. Only after you take care of yourself, you become a happy joyful person.
Nina Obran
#78. When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
Dave Chappelle
#79. Don't make people control your life, People only care about themselves. Live your life with happy and ignore Sick people.
Al-Hanouf Halawi
#80. I'm very happy to say goodbye to the three-button suits. I hate three-button suits. Some people can pull them off, but they're legitimately really, really skinny. Unfortunately, the only people who actually wear them are, like, Mr. Monopoly, and people like that.
Rich Sommer
#81. Once I had gotten my bearings and turned back to the room in front of me, I found myself staring directly into the eyes of Queen Julia. Well, her and about twenty Hunters who seemed only too happy to display their bouncing balls of crackling orange magic and wicked stares.
Stormy Smith
#82. If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
#83. To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.
Eliphas Levi
#84. It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. Henry
#85. O blessed bounty, giving ail content!
The only fautress of all noble arts
That lend'st success to every good intent.
A grace that rests in the most godlike hearts,
By heav'n to none but happy souls infus'd
Pity it is, that e'er thou wast abus'd.
Michael Drayton
#86. You know marriage is like hunger. You yearn for it till you don't get the food. Once the stomach is full, you don't want more on your plate. But then hunger can subside only temporarily. It keeps coming back and that's how exactly a happy married life keeps going on, with all ups and downs.
Shikha Kaul
#87. you have to come to terms with the fact that you've really only got yourself in life, and if you don't make yourself happy someone else isn't going to make you happy. Too many people clutch onto someone else, looking for security and acceptance.
Will Fellows
#88. 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
#89. Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.
Ezra Taft Benson
#90. This proves the significance of individualism; being able to face the music, to embrace it, and then create something beautiful from it. You can't truly be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes and the pinnacle of life can only be reached when one can carve their own path.
Nadege Richards
#91. I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.
Helen Clark
#92. There isn't anything I won't do for you, Tru. Nothing I won't do to make you happy. What I feel for you ... it's limitless. There is nothing before or after you. There is only you.
Samantha Towle
#93. I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.
Yao Ming
#94. You can only be really happy when you become what you really are.
Frederick Lenz
#95. We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available
all the time!
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#96. The only way to BE happy is to GIVE happy.
Chris Brady
#97. Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows us no other definition. He gives us commandments for one reason only-because he loves us and wants us to be happy.
Paul H. Dunn
#98. Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.
Kasie West
#99. You don't know what beauty is. You use the word, certainly, but your word is empty. Beauty is known only by one who has known the inner beauty, one who has known the inner flower opening. Then whenever a flower is seen, it reminds you of your inner beauty.
Rajneesh
#100. I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child ... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.
Jeff Dunham
