Happy Quotes and Sayings
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Jacques Prévert
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Palmer Sondreal
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
Anonymous
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Marcel Pagnol
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
E.L. Konigsburg
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Openheim
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
Frank McKinney (Kin Hubbard)
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
St. Augustine
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
Colette
Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
J. C. F. von Schiller
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Brooker Palmer
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean de La Bruyere
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Robertson Davies
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
Berke Breathed
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
Oscar Wilde
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
Anne Frank
Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy.
Anonymous
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar Wilde
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese Proverb
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Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John Stosssel
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne