Happy Quotes
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See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself (s'est détacher de lui-même", Fr.), has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ("patrie", Fr.); thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence.
African Spir
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I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things.
Bill Kirchen
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I am very happy to be here in the NBA.
Dwyane Wade
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My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!
Morena Baccarin
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Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.
Ellen Kushner
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Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In drear-nighted December,Too happy, happy tree,Thy branches ne'er rememberTheir green felicity.
John Keats
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You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
Norah Vincent
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I'm happy to see the union come together. We really need to clear up the public perception of what's going on.
Eric Byrnes
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I'm happy with everything I chose and happy with the way everything went in my life.
Rich Piana
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When he's happy, it makes you happy too.
Bisco Hatori
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There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]
David Mason
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Being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.
Winona Ryder
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My general advice for writers/comedians is, make stuff you like and are proud of. Put it in a place where people can see it, whether that's onstage or on the Internet or wherever. Just do the things that make you happy creatively, and then show them to people.
Josh Gondelman
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Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
Elena Ferrante
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I was so mad I wasn't sitting at the stadium watching it Prince' 2007 Super Bowl performance in person. So when Prince came back to the box where I would have been after he performed, he said to my makeup artist, "Where's Stevie?" She said, "She's sick, and she was told by our manager that she would have to walk across the football field when the game was over in the mud and try to find a limo, so she made the decision that she couldn't do that." He was not happy that I wasn't there, and now today I'm not happy about it because I should have gone and I should have walked in that mud for him.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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It's like this," he'd explained once to Connie. "If someone gave you a single rose, you'd be happy, right?" "Okay," he went on, "Now imagine someone gives you ten thousand roses." "That is a whole lotta roses," she said. "That's too much." "Right. Too much. But more than that, it makes each individual rose much less special, right? It makes it hard to pick one out and say, 'That's the good one.' And it makes you want to just get rid of them all because none of them seem special now." Connie had narrowed her eyes. "Are you saying when you're at school you just want to get rid of everyone?
Barry Lyga
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Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
Elizabeth Carter
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One of the things you don't usually mess with is happy.
Steve Alford
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As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
Natalie Portman
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We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
Albert Camus
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Seneca the Younger