Top 100 Quotes About Being Happy
#1. Live with the objective of being happy.
Anne Frank
#2. Being in love is not always happiness, but being happy is always in love
Hisham Fawzi
#3. I can also see myself in a relationship with him. I can see myself being happy with him and never feeling like things were lacking.
Sarina Bowen
#4. No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
Bret Easton Ellis
#5. Given a choice between being happy or being efficient and safe, I'll take efficient and safe.
Bob Buckhorn
#6. It is how we perceive ourselves that matters. True courage isn't about being brave. True beauty isn't about being beautiful. True courage is about being real. True beauty is about being happy.
R.K. Ryals
#7. At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we're going through.
Kim Kardashian
#8. Jay became an adult. He got a job, married a wife, and they had a child. Now he had so many things to take care! Like all other grown ups, he talked more of being busy than of being happy. He completely forgot the little bird singing beautiful songs in his heart.
Ilchi Lee
#9. Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Stephen Fry
#10. We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Jean De La Bruyere
#11. Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.
Wayne Coyne
#12. But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
Audrey Niffenegger
#13. Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#14. The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.
Thomas Sankara
#15. You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
Jeph Jacques
#16. You know what it's like to move from being happy to being not? It's like swinging as high as you can and someone stops you as you come back down.
Joan Bauer
#17. Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
Anna Seward
#18. Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.
Brian Tracy
#19. The key to happiness is being happy with who you are and enjoying the life you are living.
Robert Moment
#20. I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
Drew Barrymore
#21. What is wrong with enjoying yourself? What is wrong in being happy? If there is anything wrong it is always in your unhappiness, because an unhappy person creates ripples of unhappiness all around him. Be happy!
Rajneesh
#22. You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma
Jack Gantos
#23. As far as the name goes, we may almist say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both the multitude and the persons of refinement speak of it as happiness, and conceive 'the good life' or 'doing well' to be the same thing as 'being happy.
Aristotle.
#24. Being happy is knowing how to be content with little
Epicurus
#25. But before that, before the farm went bad, Alphonse remembers being happy. He didn't know it was happiness and couldn't have put a name to it then - in fact he's pretty sure he never even thought about it - but now he knows that it was happiness.
Anita Shreve
#26. And then, for an hour, he became aware of the strange life he was leading, of him doing lots of things which were only a game, of, though being happy and feeling joy at times, real life still passing him by and not touching him
Hermann Hesse
#27. Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It's about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It's about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.
Alexander Kjerulf
#28. Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
Andre Gide
#29. Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy.
Rockmond Dunbar
#30. Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.
Koo Stark
#31. There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.
Dalai Lama
#32. The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Sophie Swetchine
#33. The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge
#34. I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
Christina Milian
#35. The self-cultivator spends more energy trying to display the fact that he is happy - posting highlight reel Facebook photos and all the rest - than he does actually being happy.
David Brooks
#36. He was never able to properly explain what happened to him that day. But he stopped being happy.
Fredrik Backman
#37. There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
Carter Burwell
#38. You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice.
Sonia Friedman
#39. You must remember this feeling, Jon.
The feeling of being happy. It doesn't happen often but when it does, you must grab it with both hands and hold it close. Let it overwhelm you. Don't
over analyse any emotion. But remember it. Always remember it.
Pleasefindthis
#40. I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry. A spark flew off Arnold and shook me, like a chill. I wanted to cry; I felt very odd. I had fallen into a new way of being happy.
Sylvia Plath
#41. 99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.
Mark Webber
#42. When you're grieving, the times you're happy are so much more tragic than the times that you aren't. Because being happy feels fake and it feels temporary and it feels meaningless. And hating being happy is a shitty way to live.
Hannah Moskowitz
#43. Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy
Tim Willocks
#44. Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
Fannie Flagg
#45. When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
Natalia Kills
#46. If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn't worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy.
Kristen Crockett
#47. I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
Hermann Hesse
#48. Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.
Eric Shanteau
#49. I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy?
I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly?
Chris Colfer
#50. If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.
Byron Katie
#51. You will never know the purest love you can give a person, until the day you hurt because they hurt. You genuinely want them to succeed in life and be free from all the chains that keep them from being happy, whether you are in their life or not.
Shannon L. Alder
#52. No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
Josef Pieper
#53. I like joy; I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
Doris Day
#54. To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it's nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you.
Kristen Stewart
#55. I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner. From my point of view many left feeling sorry for me instead of being happy for Rafa. Which hurts.
Roger Federer
#56. The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
John Lubbock
#57. The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#58. It's not the circumstances of your life that are preventing you from being happy; it's the excuses you're making not to be happy! Like attracts like, happiness attracts happiness, so just drop the excuses - drop every one of them - and be happy now!
Rhonda Byrne
#59. There's a void inside most people.
It's been created by not being contented with who we are, not being happy with what we have, not being present and looking for something more, better, more exciting out there.
And we've always been trying to fill this void with something external.
Lidiya K.
#60. Being funny is not the same as being happy.
Dana Gould
#61. Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with being happy; but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise.
Aristotle.
#62. A beautiful life is about spending your time passionately, being happy with who you are inside, and not worrying about everyone's petty judgments. If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for everyone's approval. You don't need anyone's approval to be happy or to follow your heart.
Shivesh Thakur
#63. I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.
Kristen Schaal
#64. Love doesn't mean getting someone, It means being happy in the happiness of the one we love...
Vinit K. Bansal
#65. The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
William James
#66. Being interesting isn't important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you're proud of
Holly Bourne
#67. A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
Zane Grey
#68. As I watch him, a sudden recognition comes over me: Tonight, I can be anyone I want ... maybe being happy only means living in the moment, appreciating the exact moment you're in and not thinking about the worries of the future.
Laura Fitzgerald
#69. It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.
Alice Hegan Rice
#70. Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.
Ira Levin
#71. Our idea of happiness may be the very thing that's preventing us from being happy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#72. I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'
Ben Huh
#73. I suppose you don't stand much if a chance if you think that happiness us the absence of unhappiness,' he said. 'Good luck ever being happy, then.
Deb Caletti
#74. Being happy at others cost ... not a sign of humanity.
Adil Adam Memon
#75. We all have an eraser incorporated within us, a delete key, but we forget how to use it. Ho'oponopono helps us to remember the power that we have to choose between erasing (letting go) or reacting, being happy or suffering. It is only a matter of choice in every moment of our lives.
Mabel Katz
#76. I'm serious. You've been doing so much thinking with your head that you're ignoring your heart completely. There has to be a balance. The fact that both of you are letting other things consume you is about to ruin any chance you'll ever have at being happy.
Colleen Hoover
#77. There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#78. The fifties was chosen for the visual and audio aspects, because that was the decade in which the most people had self-identified as being happy. Which is one of the goals here: maximum possible happiness. Who wouldn't tick that box? When
Margaret Atwood
#80. Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good
Donatella Versace
#81. The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don't commit to being happy at work, you won't be. You won't make the choices that make you happy. You won't take the actions needed to get there. You won't change the things that need to change.
Alexander Kjerulf
#82. Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.
Philippos
#83. Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
Lady Randolph Churchill
#84. I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I've started painting more. I've been working out a lot. I've started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I've never been closer to that.
Taylor Swift
#85. Some people don't like being happy. They're much more comfortable when they have a problem.
Elin Hilderbrand
#86. But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.
Jon Krakauer
#87. The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#88. Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
Yanni
#89. Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.
Frederick Lenz
#90. Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?),
Claire Messud
#91. Success is being happy first with yourself, and secondly with your life.
Carolynn Hillman
#92. That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.
Robin Hobb
#93. Because pretending to be happy is almost like being happy. Until you remember that you're only pretending. Then you're sad. Really sad. Because wearing a mask every day of your life is the hardest thing to do. And after a while, you get a little scared because the mask becomes you.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#94. I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.
Jennifer Lawrence
#95. This is me being sad.
Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.
Michael Rosen
#96. Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.
Esther Hicks
#97. RVM's Thought for the Day-Don't be afraid of being Happy. You deserve to be Happy.
R.v.m.
#98. I'm a simple kind of guy, so I just envision myself being happy.
Jon Huertas
#99. As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.
Russell Simmons
#100. People in Africa have a well-deserved reputation for being happy. This may explain why: there is no word in Swahili for "sarcasm" therefore Africans have no concept of saying something and having it mean a playfully snide version of the opposite.
Will Bowen
