Happy Quotes

• I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Career
  • End
  • Sad

• I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Mind
  • Happy

• I don't have any down days. If anybody who knows me comes into our locker room, they know I'm happy; they know I'm cheerful.

  

  Darnell Dockett
  • Happy

• What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Mom

• ...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Goal

• The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Heart
  • Water
  • Thoughts

• I'm never really happy with anything I do.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Happy

• No, I like to wear as least amount of makeup as I can during my everyday life because I'm just all about keeping my skin healthy and hydrated and I love to laugh and have a great time and smile - that's when I feel the most pretty so I just want to make sure that I stay happy.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Happy
  • Bear
  • Exchange

• To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.

  

  Per Petterson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Remember

• I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Parents
  • Blue
  • Winter

• I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Worry

• I'm very happy to watch a video at home with a friend rather than do dinner.

  

  Penny Marshall
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Friend

• How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Long
  • Happy

• As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • People
  • Lazy
  • Ungrateful

• I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Bad
  • Today
  • Pretty

• My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• We try so hard to be happy that we end up missing the most important parts of our lives and destroying the very peace that we were seeking

  

  Mark Williams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Peace

• Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Happy
  • Play

• We're taking the approach that we're just happy to be going to the national tournament. We're not going out there with the idea of winning it. We're going out there to take things as they come -- one game at a time.

  

  Jay Harrington
  • Happy
  • National
  • Tournament

• I never assumed that I would be able to play in a main draw so quickly after Juniors. I've been having really good results. It really is a privilege. I'm very happy for the opportunity.

  

  Denis Shapovalov
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • May
  • American
  • Girl

• A band in our position, we have a first impression to make. We don't want to come out of the gate and make people sad. I think we consciously made that choice to keep it happy and up.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • People
  • Up
  • Band

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