Top 100 You Can Be Happy Quotes
#1. I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.
Kevin Hart
#2. 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
#3. It's an illusion to believe that you can be happy when no one else is. Or that other people will not be affected by your unhappiness.
John Brockman
#4. Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.
Walt Disney
#5. She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
Jodi Picoult
#6. After all, why be right when you can be happy.
Tom Holt
#7. You can be happy anywhere, if you have the right point of view. And the ability to ignore the smell of an entire planet.
John Scalzi
#8. You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.
Chris Prentiss
#9. My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with Him and nothing else you can be happy, but without Him and with all else you'll never be happy.
Patrick Henry
#10. People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland ... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
Sue Grafton
#11. Before and after ... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#12. As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.
Ralphie May
#13. But you can be happy, if you've a mind to!
Roger Miller
#14. It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.
Chris Brady
#15. My father passed on one important piece of relationship advice before he died. He said son, in a relationship you can either be right or you can be happy. You'll soon find out that you don't care that much about being right.
Ralphie May
#16. If you wants lots of things, you can be happy when you get a few of them.
Kate Hattemer
#17. I mean you can be with the person, but still be yourself. You can be happy to be yourself. It's very ... nice," her grandmother had said quietly. "When you're with a person who is content to let you be. It's the most peaceful thing in the world.
Alisha Rai
#18. You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
Epictetus
#20. Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.
Misha Collins
#21. Whatever your condition, you can be happy if you have the right attitude.
Al Koran
#22. Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.
Kristin Cast
#23. The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be.
Afrojack
#24. I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing.
Gene Pitney
#25. You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.
Joyce Meyer
#26. Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.
Irvin Kershner
#27. Life's too short to be miserable, basically. If you can be happy, then be happy.
Jonathan Morris
#28. I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'
Cherie Lunghi
#29. When you can be happy in your sadness as you are in your happiness. Then you know the key to life.
Suze Orman
#31. You can be happy in any circumstances, you simply need to believe in God.
Nick Vujicic
#32. It's impossible to be really sad when you're asleep. You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think?
Gregory David Roberts
#33. [Life] wasn't a fairy tale, and it didn't have a happy ending--but then again, no story did. In the end everybody dies... But you can be happy right up until the last page...
Aury Wallington
#34. You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are.
A Prologue to Love
Taylor Caldwell
#35. I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you'll always be happy, because it's always in the now
Willie Nelson
#37. I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.
Judith McNaught
#38. There are two days in the year that you cannot do anything: YESTERDAY & TOMORROW: Only TODAY you can Be Happy, Smile, Dream, Love, Feel, & Be Thankful ...
Pablo
#39. True peace is when you can be happy in the midst of chaos.
Matthew Donnelly
#40. If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.
Tim Burton
#41. You can be happy even if your bones are broken,
but no man is happy when his heart is heavy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#42. I think you have to remember to do things for the right reason. Do the right thing, so you can be happy with all your decisions and happy with how spent time in the world.
Chris Wyse
#43. It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
Mike Leigh
#44. You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults - until you meet someone who likes your faults.
Robert Breault
#45. Hedonic Engineering
The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?
Robert J. Wilson
#46. Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?
Simon Doonan
#48. Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.
Huanchu Daoren
#49. The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#50. I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.
Tyler Perry
#52. I guess people don't understand how much you can be happy by simply talking with the right person.
Sarvesh Jain
#53. I just believe in whatever you're going to do, even if it's work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.
Steve Wozniak
#54. You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.
Steve Harvey
#55. You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
Giacomo Leopardi
#56. Why be miserable when you can be happy? It's an obvious choice to me.
Tillie Cole
#57. The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions ... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.
Dalai Lama
#59. I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
Danica Patrick
#60. In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.
Christian Louboutin
#61. If you give yourself permission to feel the pain and the joy, without attaching to either, then you can be happy or sad with an underlying peace that just makes everything feel like it's going to be OK.
Richard Brancatisano
#62. She sighs, and then gives me this look. It's new and I don't like it. Sort of, Two roads diverged in a wood, mine is normal, but I hope you can be happy for me even though you are Miss Havisham.
Anna Breslaw
#63. You can be happy instantly by wanting what you already have.
Bob Schwartz
#64. That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can't bear to be this happy without the other person with you.
Anne Rice
#65. Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.
Peter Seidel
#66. What love it to me ... is his happiness. I'm not like you where I fall in love so I can be happy. All I need is for him to be smiling.
Kim Su-mi
#67. 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
#68. You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.
Iris Apfel
#69. 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
#70. The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them.
Marci Shimoff
#71. There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
Rachel Cusk
#72. When I think about you with him, it guts me. I feel like you ripped open my chest and tore out my damn heart. Do you even realize that? I know I should want you to be happy, but I can't wish it for anyone else other than me. I belong to you, and that's never going to change.
Ashleigh Z.
#73. Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing ... You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.
Enya
#74. The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.
Joel Osteen
#75. You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it's because you are ready to fall in love.
Helen Fisher
#76. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy. But on Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be
Ava Dellaira
#77. Don't be upset and caught up with things or people you cannot change. Instead, move on, let go and concentrate on what you CAN change. Things that enhance your life. You deserve to be happy.
Unknown
#78. If you can't be happy where you are, you can't be happy anywhere
Neil Gaiman
#79. A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak.
This magpie was like that.
Colin Thiele
#80. No relationship is perfect nor will anyone ever be the best boyfriend or girlfriend. Long as you put in the effort and try to make your lover happy. That's all we can ask for.
Kevin McCarty
#81. Disney happy is the most happy you can be. It's at the top of the happy scale right above eating cheesecake in a hot tub.
Tom Fletcher
#82. Yeah, I'm just here for - I stop for a second, because I'm not sure how to finish the line out loud. To see if I can ever be happy, or even remotely human, again. Would you happen to have the magic cure?
Daisy Whitney
#83. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#84. If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.
Dale Carnegie
#85. For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
Lenny Kravitz
#86. It's hard to be happy in the now when you can't stop worrying about the future. What I want is to trust that everything will work out. To believe with all my heart that I'll end up where I belong.
Lisa Schroeder
#87. Why can't you just be happy with me, Lo? Why can't you just love me the way that I love you?" "Man,
Tynessa
#88. You bite the bullet and get on with it. One can't expect to be happy all the time ... You expect to be happy, as if it's a right. It's not a right. It's a bonus. The cherry on the cake.
Santa Montefiore
#89. I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.
Jane Austen
#90. Find something that you love. Something that gets you so excited you can't wait to get out of bed in the morning. Forget about money. Be happy.
Chris Gardner
#91. You see, John, unless you reduce your needs, you will never be fulfilled. You will always be like that gambler in Las Vegas, staying at the roulette wheel for 'just one more spin' in the hope that your lucky number will come up. You will always want more than you have. How can you ever be happy?
Robin S. Sharma
#92. There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.
Martha Grimes
#93. Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy without what you thought you needed in order to be happy, and you will be. Your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#94. I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.
Cecelia Ahern
#95. Babe, I can't promise you that I'll always be perfect, but I'll do my straight best to try, and I'll make it my life's goal to always make sure you're happy. All you've got to do is marry me, and I'll do the rest.
Elle Casey
#96. That's how you're defining right and wrong? By what makes me happy?"
Pride lit his face as he nodded.
Oh Jesus. "Walker, you can't do that."
"Why not?"
"Because I shouldn't be the center of your life!"
His voice was gentle, a little confused. "But you are.
Rowan McBride
#97. I'm very happy to make specific choices (as an actor), (but) you can't be married to them because you never know when the writers are going to be like, "By the way, you have no brothers, you have a sister."
Anna Chlumsky
#98. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?
Alicia Kobishop
#99. 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
#100. The myth of 'You have to be a tortured artist' is a myth," says Lin. "You can have a happy, healthy life and still go to all these crazy dark places in your writing, and then go play with your child and hug your wife.
Jeremy McCarter
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