Top 100 Quotes About Happier
#1. I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.
Aziz Ansari
#2. In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.
James Young
#3. All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.
Lester Levenson
#4. I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
Gail Carson Levine
#5. It's odd, but people are capable of forgetting quite extraordinary occurrences very quickly if it makes them happier to do so,
John Connolly
#6. And feel that I am happier than I know.
John Milton
#7. Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.
Orianthi
#9. You should have a guy that makes you feel happier, not upset. I don't think that's too much to ask for.
Lauren Conrad
#10. Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut
#11. I really realized how much happier I am when I'm doing projects that I'm chosen to do, and on the flip side, how much unhappier I am on projects that make me feel uncomfortable.
Jonathan Tucker
#12. I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.
Jonny Lang
#13. I would be happier if it were a full audience full of drag queens. It would be my dreams come true.
Ladyhawke
#14. On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.
Gaspar Noe
#15. Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough
Only because we do not know enough
When Science has discovered something more
We shall be happier than we were before.
Hilaire Belloc
#16. Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert
#17. When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic.
Paul Auster
#18. If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.
Marilyn Manson
#19. For anyone who loves intensely lives not in himself but in the object of his love, and the further he can move out of himself into his love, the happier he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
#20. I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.
Selma Lagerlof
#22. Yeah, yeah," Wayne said. "That too. But if I could get everybody drunk, think how much happier this city would be." "So long as you get me drunk first, I'd be fine with it." She held out her cup to him. "Top a lady off, will you?
Brandon Sanderson
#23. Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.
Simone Elkeles
#24. One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#25. The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#26. I got to a happier point and then started making a record [Wild Things]. I don't mind at all that it sounds like LA, because LA was integral to me feeling better. Seeing the sunshine and all that other sorts of stuff was definitely a huge part in why the album sounds like it sounds.
Ladyhawke
#27. If we have a reason to do it, a reason that engages us and makes us involved, we will both do it better and feel happier as a result
Anonymous
#28. A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#29. The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#30. Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
Ben Stein
#31. I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
Isabel Allende
#32. It's easy to feel depressed by focusing on problems. Count your blessings while others are adding up their worries and you will be much happier. Attitude is EVERYTHING!
Karen Gibbs
#33. I'm scared that every girl I care for will find a better man and end up happier in the longrun
Drake
#34. In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.
Gretchen Rubin
#35. I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.
Jennifer Lawrence
#36. Everybody wants to be pretty because that's what they've been told will make them feel good even though there's no proof that people who are prettier are healthier and happier. So why don't we just cut to the chase and go straight to what makes us feel good?
Bryan Kest
#37. The clatter of Crow calling to Crow - is there anywhere a friendlier, happier sound?
Clem Martini
#38. If you are happier than you have ever been, then your power is increasing. But is it a fast a rate of climb as you would like?
Frederick Lenz
#39. People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.
Anna Paquin
#40. Don't you think women would be happier if Layla had a whole chorus about Eric Clapton watching Patti Boyd trying to climb over a park fence, pissed, in order to retrieve a shoe she threw in there, for a bet?
Caitlin Moran
#41. Will we be happier afterwards? Or will be have lost the freshness of those who are privileged to experience art as real life, where we enter after the trumps have been played, and we leave without knowing who's going to win or lose the game?
Umberto Eco
#42. Someone will care if you just give 'em a chance. There's always people who need you as much as you need them. Don't you forget that. All you got to do is find 'em. And when you do, you find you're happier carin' about someone else than just about yourself all the time.
Ester Wier
#43. Take a load off, don't take everything so seriously. And just be happier.
Ariana Grande
#44. I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
Jane Austen
#45. And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.
Mary Oliver
#46. I love you," Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn't.
"That's what you all keep saying," I answered. "But it doesn't seem to get me any happier.
Charlaine Harris
#47. As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.
Brene Brown
#48. All I have to do is look around me to know time doesn't heal all wounds. If it did, maybe this place would have some happier hearts
Angela Pisel
#49. Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.
Elisabeth Harnois
#50. Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connected to everyone I disappear ... in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you're connected to everyone, that's the best thing that can happen.
Raj Patel
#51. I can't say this too often - that a little humor can make life worth living. That has always been my credo. Somebody once asked me, 'What would you like your epitaph to be?' I've always said that I'd like it to be: He left people a little happier than they were when he came into the room.
Bennett Cerf
#52. Magic is the motivation to see opportunities for a happier potential. The motivation itself creates the potential.
Shradhdha. S
#53. If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
H.L. Mencken
#54. I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
Paul Theroux
#55. Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?
Judith Butler
#56. Happy new year we tell each other every year, contains a simple but significant message: Try to be happier and don't care to your problems too much.
Hamid Karima
#57. The happier people become the more I noticed my sadness.
Donna Freitas
#58. It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.
Kyle D. Pruett
#59. Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.
John Fowles
#60. Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
John Dryden
#61. Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.
Clark Gable
#62. Owners sometimes think their dogs have already suffered so much that they couldn't possibly inflict any more criticism. Yet it's that very firm, effective training that would make those dogs happier and more secure.
Jon Katz
#63. Perhaps it is our dreams that keep us young. Older women who cling on to youth may look ghoulish, but perhaps they are happier than those of us who grow old and crochety before our time.
Kate Kerrigan
#64. If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.
Jack Nicholson
#65. I'm a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I'm always thinking about what will make my family happier. So I set up playdates and trips.
Heidi Klum
#66. The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in the moment. I'm part of this beautiful world, and it's fantastic, and I don't really know how else to describe it.
Sarah McLachlan
#67. To be really honest, I think if anybody did derive comfort from the fact that 'there's always someone worse off than yourself,' they'd have to be a pretty sad and sick individual. If I've sprained my wrist, I'm not made happier by the thought that someone somewhere has broken their leg!
Stuart Hill
#68. Hope
your time from the end of the year to
start of a new year
always sounds 'it will be happier and fruitful' ...
Santosh Kalwar
#69. Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#70. After a breakup or divorce, you have the power to heal and become emotionally stronger, more compassionate, understanding, resilient, prettier, healthier, happier and more successful, but you must focus on yourself.
Linda Alfiori
#71. I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.
Henry Ford
#72. In our families, we are finding that abandoning that sense of masculine entitlement actually enables us to live happier lives.
Michael S. Kimmel
#73. I often wonder, with my hand on my heart, if 'The Dying Hours' was made into the biggest movie franchise in history, would I pick up my pen again? Wouldn't I be happier spending the rest of my life travelling around with my wife?
Mark Billingham
#74. If I improve just a little bit every day, I'm a happier person
Frank Mir
#75. The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.
Robin Marantz Henig
#77. Revenge! No - what good would that do? - it would make him no better, and me no happier.' 'I
Anne Bronte
#78. People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.
Daniel Kahneman
#79. They (penguins) then fall madly in love and live happily ever after.
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And so you ask yourself: "If a penguin can have a worthwhile, stimulating relationship, why the hell can't I?"
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Or maybe you ask yourself: "Would I be happier if I started dating a penguin
Bradley Trevor Greive
#80. Starved and tired enough he was: but he looked happier than when he set out. He had performed an act of duty; made an exertion; felt his own strength to do and deny, and was on better terms with himself.
Charlotte Bronte
#81. I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!
Martin McDonagh
#82. The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.
Pema Chodron
#83. I would like to stop worrying so much, because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. I have to learn to take things not so seriously. And to stop biting my nails! ... Recording music has helped take my mind off certain things. For me, my music is therapy.
Britney Spears
#84. Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.
Poppy Montgomery
#85. The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.
Robert Downey Jr.
#86. I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.
Mia Wasikowska
#87. The main shift, you see, is from placing self at the center of our thoughts to putting others there. It is-what do you say?-a paradox that the more we can focus our thoughts on the well-being of others, the happier we become. The first one to benefit is oneself. I call this being wisely selfish.
David Michie
#88. You are much happier when you are happy than when you ain't.
Ogden Nash
#89. My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
Sally Pearson
#90. I lived a dual life, and when my dual life exploded, I began to feel much happier.
James Nesbitt
#91. Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.
Laozi
#93. I took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn't worked in a year. And I was sort of, like, not really happy. I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.
Sam Rockwell
#94. I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
Doris Lessing
#95. I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
Gore Vidal
#96. I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I think if you walked through it, you'd be happier than you are.'
Greg Boyle
#97. The Hedonic Treadmill By failing to anticipate the extent of our hedonic adaptation, as consumers we routinely escalate our purchases, hoping that new stuff will make us happier.
Dan Ariely
#98. Sometimes the only thing we women want is a dick and no arguments. What could make us happier?
Linda Fiorentino
#99. If you treat what you value most in life more like a garden and less like a vending machine, you'll probably be happier. (from You Oughta Know By Now)
Brian P. Cleary
#100. I've come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.
Jason Mraz
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