Top 100 Seem Happy Quotes
#1. From the outside, I seem happy a lot. But, I'm human and it's not possible to always be happy.
Park Bom
#2. One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.
Rabindranath Tagore
#4. We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'
Carrie Fisher
#5. In my opinion a lot of people who may seem happy now would do what I did or similar things if they had the money and the time. I
John Fowles
#6. I want to tell her to stop, to leave, but parts of me are at war. I'm happy to have her close even if it hurts, even if it doesn't make any sense. But I can't seem to reach for her; I can't hold her like I've always wanted to.
Tahereh Mafi
#7. 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
#8. I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.
Loretta Lynn
#9. The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
Candace Bushnell
#10. If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
#11. The people we see do not seem to be as happy as we are. They look like they are sad, and in a hurry. They all look down at their phones and do not talk to each other.
Paul Nelson
#12. But then if I'm being honest, most happy-sounding things probably wouldn't suit him. He could be riding the Matterhorn at Disneyland while eating ten tubs of gingerbread ice cream and still seem as fierce and angry as fuck.
Charlotte Stein
#13. All musical people seem to be happy.
It is the engrossing pursuit, -
almost the only innocent and
unpunished passion.
Sydney Smith
#14. Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.
Piers Anthony
#15. When you are following dharma, you will be happy, at peace, still inside. There will be a sense of purpose to your life. Difficulties will not seem unconquerable.
Frederick Lenz
#16. It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.
Virginia Graham
#17. You seem so happy with the dragon king's cock." "It is effective." "And that's all a Daughter of the Steppes wants," she said, sagely. "An effective cock.
G.A. Aiken
#18. Today's middle class lives better than did the Royalty of not so long ago, and yet humans today don't seem very happy.
Russ Harris
#19. I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
Jack Layton
#20. Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.
Susan Glaspell
#21. Nothing's wrong. I just can't ever seem to do enough.'
'Enough for who? Mom and Dad? You have to get over that. You're never going to be happy until you live your own life.
Sarah Addison Allen
#22. It doesn't really seem possible that being happy is as simple as deciding to focus on what is good in the world and not on what is bad
Missy Marston
#23. It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy.
Jack Nicholson
#24. The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well.
Sophia Bush
#25. People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.
Jade Hassoune
#26. We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.
Alison Gopnik
#27. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job,
Valeria Lukyanova
#28. They were gone, she hoped, to be happy, however oddly constructed such happiness might seem; as for herself, she was left with as many sensations of comfort, as were, perhaps, ever likely to be hers.
Jane Austen
#29. People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
Kate Williams
#30. Because here's the thing: I was fine on my own, and so are you. But it can be hard when you feel ready for Happy Couplehood and you seem to have missed the train.
Lauren Graham
#31. Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.
Daisy Whitney
#32. Storylines from fiction always seem inherently improbable to occur in real life, yet when we read them we are happy to suspend our disbelief, which may simply suggest that in our everyday lives we have an irrational craving for certainty and probability.
Guy Fraser-Sampson
#33. When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.
Alleyne FitzHerbert
#34. Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved ... I'm happy and relieved by this.
Buzz Osborne
#35. You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.
Archie Panjabi
#36. If you can seem shiny and happy in front of a large group of people at once, you have witnesses and they will spread the word to the rest of the world. "Oh, I just saw her a couple of weeks ago. She seemed great!" And you're off the hook for a while, and probably a little exhausted. It
Kat Kinsman
#37. You see, I have a different nature than he has. What makes me happy I seem to catch out of the sky with both hands; I only hold whatever it is that I love because that is all I can really see.
Jane Bowles
#38. It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.
Benjamin Rush
#39. College campuses are populated by and endless throng of happy, dancing, fully conversational creatures who seem to exist from the sole purpose of reinforcing your utter alienation. I tried to take comfort in the fact that hell is other people and ultimately we are alone anyway.
Jacqueline Novak
#40. The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.
Andrew Weil
#41. Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
Eric Drooker
#42. The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge
#43. All I can say is that you make me ... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.
Jojo Moyes
#44. There's also something about your bed; it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your bed doesn't seem to be an important thing in a happy life, and yet it can be that tiny foothold into a more orderly life that sometimes people need.
Gretchen Rubin
#45. Our fine Governor called me here to ask me to talk to you
said you didn't seem too happy here. He knows we're pals. He wanted me to just
I don't know, make sure you weren't going to cause any trouble or something.
Robert Kirkman
#46. I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy.
Patrick O'Brian
#47. Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
Hannah Cowley
#48. I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
Doris Lessing
#49. Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.
Robert Grudin
#50. Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
#51. Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.
Marcel Proust
#52. There was no comfort in happy memories; they just made it all seem worse.
Adriana Trigiani
#53. I guess when you're happy where you are, the grass don't seem so green on the other side of the fence. Maybe it never was.
Sarah McCoy
#54. Unhappy endings might seem more realistic than happy ones, but reality often contained a streak of fantasy that realism lacked.
Salman Rushdie
#55. What wonderful minds we have, even though they don't seem to get us anywhere, or make us happy.
Tim Parks
#56. Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.
John Muir
#57. In my fantasy world everyone has a happy ending. No one is told who they should be, how they should feel, who they are allowed to love, what they should believe and how they should look. Sadly, everyone in my world can't seem to get along with one another because everyone is so darn different.
Shannon L. Alder
#58. I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.
Amy Chua
#59. I was happy with the umpiring in India last year, New Zealand is OK these days, and the only real area of concern is Pakistan. They seem to have a chip on their shoulders about their cricket there.
Allan Border
#60. I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways.
Nina Bawden
#61. Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.
Anna Netrebko
#62. I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here's my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it's tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you'll be
old. And then you'll be dead.
Tim Minchin
#63. When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me.
Sarah Ruhl
#64. For as long as I can remember, I've had trouble with feelings. Other people get scared, nervous, or shy, excited, or happy, sad. I seem to have only two settings: blank or empty.
Michelle Hodkin
#65. I can never understand why people seem to think that growing up with unhappy parents is better than growing up with a happy single parent.
Sarah Morgan
#66. It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
Sophie Swetchine
#67. I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise
Kurt Vonnegut
#68. You don't seem it." "I am happy." "But you've just given me all the reasons I don't need to have
Barbara Delinsky
#69. I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.
Matt Nix
#70. Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.
Marcel Proust
#71. The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things be the same again - when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back? We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream.
L.M. Montgomery
#72. That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#73. What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.
Neill Blomkamp
#74. A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
W. Somerset Maugham
#75. Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
Albert Camus
#76. The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
Will Rogers
#77. Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
Taylor Caldwell
#78. You seem genuinely happy."
"You only see me when I'm with you.
Rainbow Rowell
#79. 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
#80. Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.
C. A. Bartol
#81. I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
Michael Palin
#82. Oftentimes I say to myself, "Thou alone art wretched: all other mortals are happy, none are distressed like thee!" Then I read a passage in an ancient poet, and I seem to understand my own heart. I have so much to endure! Have men before me ever been so wretched?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#83. People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
Jane Rule
#84. The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.
Robert Browning
#85. If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. ("The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah")
William Beckford
#86. I have given you your liberty, Lucius, is that not enough for you? But I have noticed that you and your family seem less than happy of late ... What is it about my presence in your home that displeases you, Lucius?"
"Nothing - nothing, my Lord!"
"Such lies, Lucius ...
J.K. Rowling
#87. They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.
Dolly Parton
#88. There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's no money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams, and love.
Patricia McLinn
#89. Mum said that I shouldn't be moved to do anything by someone with sweet words, but Tommy Falk doesn't seem to be trying to persuade me of anything, so I let his compliment slip down nice and easy. It's quite agreeable and I'd be happy enough with another.
Maggie Stiefvater
#90. As I get older, the things that I want are starting to make more sense. Being able to travel makes me happy, and I am a person that lives in the moment. I also want to live a good life. Traveling makes everyday issues seem so much smaller and really changes my perspective on things.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
#91. You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.
Frederick Lenz
#92. How could two people seem so perfect together, be so happy together, an yet be so wrong in so many others' eyes?
Melissa Darnell
#93. I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.
Cary Grant
#94. When you are not following dharma, then you will not be at peace. You will not be happy. The simplest things will seem to be endless obstacles.
Frederick Lenz
#95. Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.
Henry Ward Beecher
#96. Men just didn't seem to 'take'. It was like a perm gone bad. You paid all that money because you thought what you are doing would make you happy, and then the hairstylist fucked it up and you had to live with it until it went away.
Raven Willow-Wood
#97. I seem to remember sitting on a golden bench, and she started chattering about the sunset, or something. She seemed quite happy so I let her get on with it. Then she got hold of my hand and asked me what I was thinking about. So I said, "The treatment of anal fistulae".
Ruth Downie
#98. We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection
which we have ourselves created.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#99. Joy is not dependent upon outward circumstances. Joy is something that we can have under all circumstances when we are sad or happy. Outward circumstances are always neutral. They seem to be happy or sad according to the happy or sad attitudes of the mind.
Goswami Kriyananda
#100. I, Kotoko Aihara ... Now Kotoko Irie ... have finally become Irie-kun's wife. And though this may seem like a happy ending, it is actually more of a happy beginning.
Kaoru Tada
