And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy?
- J R R Tolkien
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing... this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
SAM, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- J R R Tolkien
A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else. -Toyi Ward
- Kamryn Adams
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
- Douglas Adams
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
- Douglas Adams
The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to
think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy.
- Wally's Keynote Speech
- Scott Adams
I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
- Adele
If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.
- Adele
It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
- Adele
I wanted to tell you that I was so sad I felt as if I might be happy, or in love, simply because such powerful feelings can appear the same to the naive. I was mighty with grief, and I thought I should be empowered by it. I thought my hands should shine with a yellow light, and that should I reach out to touch our mother on the head, I would call her back from the place she'd gone.
- Chris Adrian
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
- Aesop
The good and the bad things are part of life. Accept it. The bad is a learning process, you will surpass it. If you do you will be happy and it will be a good thing.
- Ann Marie Aguilar
Happiness is a decision and so as Love. If you decide to be happy then you're happy. If you decide to love then you love.
- Ann Marie Aguilar
It was more that he did better being busy, keeping to a routine. It helped hold the black dogs of thought at bay. Also he had learned that a person could be happy with having done the best they could under the circumstances. It didn't always have to be bright and shiny and impressive to the outside observer.
- Ellen Airgood
Sometimes," he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, "people just want to be happy, even if it's not real.
- Veronica Roth
Sometimes people just want to be happy, even if it's not real.
- Veronica Roth
Besides, Robert. The goal of my life isn't just...to be happy."
"Wouldn't be easier if it was, though?" he says.
- Veronica Roth
I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask. Either way, I always thought I would be happy when I stopped looking like a child. But all I feel is a lump in my throat. I am no longer the daughter my parents knew. They will never know me as I am now.
- Veronica Roth
The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy'
'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?
- Veronica Roth
The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy.
- Veronica Roth
We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.
- Paulo Coelho
The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way.
Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father.
- Paulo Coelho
Do what your heart commands, and God will be happy.
- Paulo Coelho
People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.
- Paulo Coelho
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
- Paulo Coelho
...love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.
- Paulo Coelho
What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.
- Paulo Coelho
You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.
- Paulo Coelho
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
- Jodi Picoult
There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
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
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
- Jodi Picoult
Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
- Louisa May Alcott
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
- Louisa May Alcott
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment, said Tempest with a bitter smile.
Law and custom I know nothing of, public opinion I despise, and shame and fear I defy, for everyone has a right to be happy in their own way.
- Louisa May Alcott
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
- Alan Alda
Alex paused. 'I want you to be happy and I want you to be safe,' he said finally.
'I'm both those things with you.
- Sarah Alderson
No, I chastised myself. I should be happy for him. I'd let him go. I'd turned down his request to be with me, so now I had no room to judge who he chose to be with. I needed to be happy for him, but I wasn't. Knowing he was laughing and smiling with someone else, that he was flirting and teasing someone who wasn't me ignited a feeling inside me that I'd fought so hard to bury. Suddenly, I was drawn to him like I hadn't been in years, and I couldn't ignore it.
- Monica Alexander
And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.
We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly:
- Sherman Alexie
I do not know two finer people and could not imagine better news. May your lives together be happy and long. Congratulations, brother.
- Cassandra Clare
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
- Ernest Hemingway
She's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people.
- Ernest Hemingway
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
- John Ruskin
I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
- Karen Allen
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
- Woody Allen
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
- Andy Warhol
Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?
- Andy Warhol
Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn't he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster's cage was clean, I'd be happy to oblige.
- Janet Evanovich
I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy.
- Summer Altice
Given the right set of circumstances, people could be happy everywhere and all the time. And these people actually do exist. In beer commercials.
- Stephen Altrogge
We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
- Alexandre Dumas
We are always in a hurry to be happy. for when we have suffered a ling time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
- Alexandre Dumas
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
- Alexandre Dumas
Live and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day comes when God will deign to reveal the future of man, all human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope! (509).
- Alexandre Dumas
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
- Namie Amuro
Hey, Dad, if I needed to check someone's background, would you be able to do that for me?"
"That's a little unethical, Liv." John smoothed his mustache. "Is this about a boy?"
Livia cringed. "Yeah, it is."
"Then absolutely. I'd be happy to.
- Debra Anastasia
The number doesn't matter. If I got down to 070.00, I'd want to be 065.00. If I weight 010.00, I wouldn't be happy until I got down to 005.00. The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.
- Hans Christian Anderson
Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
- Pamela Anderson
you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
- Ilona Andrews
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.
- Ilona Andrews
It became known that I had a rather fertile imagination, when it came to private activities."
She stared. "What sort of private activities?"
This time he did smile, and it turned his face wicked. "Disrobe, and I'll be happy to demonstrate.
- Ilona Andrews
That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?
- Hermann Hesse
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
- Thomas Jefferson
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.
- David Archuleta
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
- Hannah Arendt
I want to give you whatever elusive, impossible, goddamned mysterious thing it is you need in order to be happy. Does that frighten you? Well, it frightens the hell out of me. Don't you think I'd stop feeling this way if I could? It's not as if you're the easiest woman in the world to He checked himself suddenly.
- Lisa Kleypas
Be happy, honey. No
one deserves it more. But don't forget... I'm
keeping one little piece of your heart for myself.
And if you ever want it back...you know
where to find it.
- Lisa Kleypas
If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?
- Lisa Kleypas
I want to be happy and stable. My life is clearly going to slow down.
- Nicole Richie
... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
Do what you want. Anything you want. I don't give a fuck. Just as long as you're happy here. I'd be happy on a deserted island that had nothing but a palm tree and a lifetime supply of sunscreen as long as Chace was there. And it was because of statements just like that I would.
- Kristen Ashley
Because she's my mother, he's the finest man I know and I want them both to be happy but I still don't know whether to slap him on the back, threaten him, punch him or vomit on his shoes.
- Kristen Ashley
I think people really want to be happy.
- John Astin
They say:
Speak for us (to whom?)
Some say: Avenge us (on whom?)
Some say: Take our place.
Some say: Witness
Others say (and these are women)
Be happy for us.
- Margaret Atwood
And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.
- Melina Marchetta
If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.
- Jean M Auel
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- Saint Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he lives so as to make happiness impossible.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy.
- Steve Maraboli
Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.
- Steve Maraboli
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.
- Jane Austen
Let those who want to be happy... be firm
- Jane Austen
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
- Jane Austen
You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
- Jane Austen
I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?
- Jane Austen
She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
- Jane Austen
I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.
- Jane Austen
He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings: the same books, the same music must charm us both.
- Jane Austen
Are you certain you'll be happy?" she asked.
Eloise smiled ruefully. "It's a little late to wonder, don't you think?"
"It might be too late to do anything about it, but it's never too late to wonder.
- Julia Quinn
Baudelaire: Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas. In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
- Paul Auster
It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
- Paul Auster
In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
- Paul Auster
I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.
- Roy Ayers
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
- Roy Ayers
Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
- Lauren Bacall
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
- Richard Bach
Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore. It's hard, but it's true.
- P C Cast
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.
- Scott Baio
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
- Howard H Baker Jr
Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.
- James Baldwin
-Lara is a weasel. I've always hated her. The only happy week I had as a child was when she fell from the roof and went into a coma. She came out of it, though. Everyone was so happy.
-Is that true? asked James.
-No, said Grieve. But they would have been happy. Everyone thinks she's so clever. And I would be happy if she went away and never came back.
- Jesse Ball
When you put your trust in your dad, he will feel the responsibility of that trust and try harder than ever to understand and to help. As your father, he is entitled to inspiration on your behalf. His advice to you will be the heartfelt expressions of someone who knows and loves you. Your dad wants more than anything for you to be happy and successful, so why would you not want to trust someone like that? Boys, trust your dad.
- M Russell Ballard
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
- Oscar Wilde
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
- Oscar Wilde
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
- Oscar Wilde
Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.
- Oscar Wilde
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
- Ernie Banks
any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
- Clive Barker
Any fool can be happy.It takes a man w a real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep
- Clive Barker
Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him.
"Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her.
"It takes a man with real heart"
he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest
"to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
- Clive Barker
I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
- Gary Barlow
I know you were just trying to help. But I passed the point of help a long time ago. Look, I know about your people and customs, and I know you were raised inside a cage. The last thing you need is to be saddled with a man who can barely walk. Why don't you just go and get your own place and live? I'll be happy to put you on all my accounts. You'll never want for anything. (Adron)
I can't do that. (Livia)
Why not? (Adron)
Because I love you. (Livia)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And if I die? (Fang)
I'll know and I won't be happy. Remember, wolf, I'm one of the few beings who can follow you into the afterworld and seriously fuck you up there. Don't fail me. (Thorn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why would you help us? (Delphine)
I hear stupidity is a fatal disease. Doing my own experimentation to see if that's true or not. If I survive, we'll know it's not. If I die...well, it'll suck. Bad. And I won't be happy. (Asmodeus)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.
- Max Barry
I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
- Drew Barrymore
The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy.
- Mischa Barton
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason When we waste time, we waste happiness.
- L Frank Baum
Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose."
"I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.
- Charles M Schulz
Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy?
CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!
- Charles M Schulz
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
- Blaise Pascal
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
- Blaise Pascal
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
- Albert Camus
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
- Albert Camus
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
- Albert Camus
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
- Albert Camus
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience
- Albert Camus
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
- Albert Camus
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
- Albert Camus
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
The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.
- Antony Beevor
What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.
- Jennifer Belle
I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each otherand dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
- L M Montgomery
Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
- L M Montgomery
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
If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus..
- Hilaire Belloc
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
- Walter Benjamin
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
- Arnold Bennett
The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.
- Ingmar Bergman
I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.
- Haruki Murakami
Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
- Haruki Murakami
I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
- Haruki Murakami
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
- Valerie Bertinelli
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
- Augustine Birrell
Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature's design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.
- Chetan Bhagat
I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.
- George Harrison
I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.
- Juliette Binoche
You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.
- Juliette Binoche
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
- Holly Black
I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.
- Michael Bloomberg
I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.
- Michael Bolton
I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
- Debby Boone
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
- Samuel Johnson
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
- Samuel Johnson
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
- Samuel Johnson
People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
- Ray Bradbury
Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.
- Ray Bradbury
We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing...
It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
- Ray Bradbury
You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't your head it all your life? I want to be happy people say. Well aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation ? And you must admit that our culture provides plenty of these.
- Ray Bradbury
It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.
- Chris Brady
The only way to BE happy is to GIVE happy.
- Chris Brady
I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
- Russell Brand
I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
- Georg Brandes
There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering one. But ever since that night in Dover prison I have never been tempted to break my vow.. My Parents always drummed into me that all you have life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name you'll never be happy.
- Richard Branson
If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.
- Madeleine L Engle
If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
- Madeleine L Engle
You're special.
I'm special.
The whole world's special, so don't you forget it.
The universe wants us
All to be happy,
Full of smiles and all that stuff,
All that stuff
That's happy and smiley.
So get happy, happy, happy right now!
Get happy, happy, happy right now!
Get happy, happy, happy right now!
- Libba Bray
Do you like him? Ty asked. "Not that I care." "I do," I said, because it was true. Even though it didn't matter anymore. "Not that I care you don't care. Though you clearly do care, and I don't care about that either." "Well, I don't care that you don't care that I don't care. In fact i'm glad. Because, um, if I were seeming someone that I liked, I'd want you to be happy for me.""Are you seeing someone?" I asked, pretty sure he wasn't. "Not that I care.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
{Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain't gonna be happy in heaven either!}www.nancybbrewer.com
From new books coming soon- 3rd in Carolina Rain series.
- Nancy B Brewer
Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal.
Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
- Rita Mae Brown
My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
- Garth Brooks
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H Jackson Brown Jr
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama
Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.
- Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Dalai Lama
If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!
- Dalai Lama
It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there's always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
- Zig Ziglar
Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things. They wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference Adrienne thought, was that most young people seemed to thing that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed that they lay in the past.
- Nicholas Sparks
Deep in her heart, she wasn't exactly sure she deserved to be happy, nor she believed that she was worthy of someone like him
- Nicholas Sparks
She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.
- Nicholas Sparks
People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.
- Nicholas Sparks
I saw the way she was looking at you, and I knew that she still loved you. More than that, I know she always will. It breaks my heart, but you know what? I'm still in love with her, and to me that means that I want nothing more than for her to be happy in life. I want that more than anything. It's all I've ever wanted for her.
- Nicholas Sparks
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
- Charles Farrar Browne
By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we have to be sorry and punish ourselves if we don't succeed in doing so. This is a perversion of a very beautiful idea: that everyone has a right to control his own destiny and to improve his life.
- Pascal Bruckner
Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?
- E A Bucchianeri
it's better to be happy...if you can..!!
- Charles Bukowski
my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw
- Charles Bukowski
Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.
- Emma Bull
I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.
- Billie Burke
If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
- Stephen Chbosky
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
- Edmund Burke
I just want you to know that where ever life takes you, I'll always be happy for you as long as its something that makes you happy because that's all that really makes me happy. Why? I'm just listening to my heart and all it's telling me is to understand. Which in a way I can but then again I can't. I'm use to it all though because not everyone lives a fair life if you know what I mean.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
- J R R Tolkien
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing... this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
SAM, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- J R R Tolkien
A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else. -Toyi Ward
- Kamryn Adams
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
- Douglas Adams
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
- Douglas Adams
The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to
think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy.
- Wally's Keynote Speech
- Scott Adams
I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
- Adele
If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.
- Adele
It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
- Adele
I wanted to tell you that I was so sad I felt as if I might be happy, or in love, simply because such powerful feelings can appear the same to the naive. I was mighty with grief, and I thought I should be empowered by it. I thought my hands should shine with a yellow light, and that should I reach out to touch our mother on the head, I would call her back from the place she'd gone.
- Chris Adrian
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
- Aesop
The good and the bad things are part of life. Accept it. The bad is a learning process, you will surpass it. If you do you will be happy and it will be a good thing.
- Ann Marie Aguilar
Happiness is a decision and so as Love. If you decide to be happy then you're happy. If you decide to love then you love.
- Ann Marie Aguilar
It was more that he did better being busy, keeping to a routine. It helped hold the black dogs of thought at bay. Also he had learned that a person could be happy with having done the best they could under the circumstances. It didn't always have to be bright and shiny and impressive to the outside observer.
- Ellen Airgood
Sometimes," he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, "people just want to be happy, even if it's not real.
- Veronica Roth
Sometimes people just want to be happy, even if it's not real.
- Veronica Roth
Besides, Robert. The goal of my life isn't just...to be happy."
"Wouldn't be easier if it was, though?" he says.
- Veronica Roth
I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask. Either way, I always thought I would be happy when I stopped looking like a child. But all I feel is a lump in my throat. I am no longer the daughter my parents knew. They will never know me as I am now.
- Veronica Roth
The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy'
'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?
- Veronica Roth
The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy.
- Veronica Roth
We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.
- Paulo Coelho
The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way.
Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father.
- Paulo Coelho
Do what your heart commands, and God will be happy.
- Paulo Coelho
People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.
- Paulo Coelho
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
- Paulo Coelho
...love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.
- Paulo Coelho
What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.
- Paulo Coelho
You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.
- Paulo Coelho
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
- Jodi Picoult
There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
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
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
- Jodi Picoult
Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
- Louisa May Alcott
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
- Louisa May Alcott
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment, said Tempest with a bitter smile.
Law and custom I know nothing of, public opinion I despise, and shame and fear I defy, for everyone has a right to be happy in their own way.
- Louisa May Alcott
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
- Alan Alda
Alex paused. 'I want you to be happy and I want you to be safe,' he said finally.
'I'm both those things with you.
- Sarah Alderson
No, I chastised myself. I should be happy for him. I'd let him go. I'd turned down his request to be with me, so now I had no room to judge who he chose to be with. I needed to be happy for him, but I wasn't. Knowing he was laughing and smiling with someone else, that he was flirting and teasing someone who wasn't me ignited a feeling inside me that I'd fought so hard to bury. Suddenly, I was drawn to him like I hadn't been in years, and I couldn't ignore it.
- Monica Alexander
And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.
We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly:
- Sherman Alexie
I do not know two finer people and could not imagine better news. May your lives together be happy and long. Congratulations, brother.
- Cassandra Clare
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
- Ernest Hemingway
She's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people.
- Ernest Hemingway
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
- John Ruskin
I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
- Karen Allen
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
- Woody Allen
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
- Andy Warhol
Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?
- Andy Warhol
Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn't he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster's cage was clean, I'd be happy to oblige.
- Janet Evanovich
I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy.
- Summer Altice
Given the right set of circumstances, people could be happy everywhere and all the time. And these people actually do exist. In beer commercials.
- Stephen Altrogge
We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
- Alexandre Dumas
We are always in a hurry to be happy. for when we have suffered a ling time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
- Alexandre Dumas
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
- Alexandre Dumas
Live and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day comes when God will deign to reveal the future of man, all human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope! (509).
- Alexandre Dumas
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
- Namie Amuro
Hey, Dad, if I needed to check someone's background, would you be able to do that for me?"
"That's a little unethical, Liv." John smoothed his mustache. "Is this about a boy?"
Livia cringed. "Yeah, it is."
"Then absolutely. I'd be happy to.
- Debra Anastasia
The number doesn't matter. If I got down to 070.00, I'd want to be 065.00. If I weight 010.00, I wouldn't be happy until I got down to 005.00. The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.
- Hans Christian Anderson
Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
- Pamela Anderson
you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
- Ilona Andrews
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.
- Ilona Andrews
It became known that I had a rather fertile imagination, when it came to private activities."
She stared. "What sort of private activities?"
This time he did smile, and it turned his face wicked. "Disrobe, and I'll be happy to demonstrate.
- Ilona Andrews
That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?
- Hermann Hesse
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
- Thomas Jefferson
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.
- David Archuleta
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
- Hannah Arendt
I want to give you whatever elusive, impossible, goddamned mysterious thing it is you need in order to be happy. Does that frighten you? Well, it frightens the hell out of me. Don't you think I'd stop feeling this way if I could? It's not as if you're the easiest woman in the world to He checked himself suddenly.
- Lisa Kleypas
Be happy, honey. No
one deserves it more. But don't forget... I'm
keeping one little piece of your heart for myself.
And if you ever want it back...you know
where to find it.
- Lisa Kleypas
If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?
- Lisa Kleypas
I want to be happy and stable. My life is clearly going to slow down.
- Nicole Richie
... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
Do what you want. Anything you want. I don't give a fuck. Just as long as you're happy here. I'd be happy on a deserted island that had nothing but a palm tree and a lifetime supply of sunscreen as long as Chace was there. And it was because of statements just like that I would.
- Kristen Ashley
Because she's my mother, he's the finest man I know and I want them both to be happy but I still don't know whether to slap him on the back, threaten him, punch him or vomit on his shoes.
- Kristen Ashley
I think people really want to be happy.
- John Astin
They say:
Speak for us (to whom?)
Some say: Avenge us (on whom?)
Some say: Take our place.
Some say: Witness
Others say (and these are women)
Be happy for us.
- Margaret Atwood
And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.
- Melina Marchetta
If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.
- Jean M Auel
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- Saint Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he lives so as to make happiness impossible.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy.
- Steve Maraboli
Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.
- Steve Maraboli
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.
- Jane Austen
Let those who want to be happy... be firm
- Jane Austen
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
- Jane Austen
You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
- Jane Austen
I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?
- Jane Austen
She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
- Jane Austen
I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.
- Jane Austen
He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings: the same books, the same music must charm us both.
- Jane Austen
Are you certain you'll be happy?" she asked.
Eloise smiled ruefully. "It's a little late to wonder, don't you think?"
"It might be too late to do anything about it, but it's never too late to wonder.
- Julia Quinn
Baudelaire: Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas. In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
- Paul Auster
It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
- Paul Auster
In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
- Paul Auster
I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.
- Roy Ayers
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
- Roy Ayers
Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
- Lauren Bacall
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
- Richard Bach
Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore. It's hard, but it's true.
- P C Cast
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.
- Scott Baio
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
- Howard H Baker Jr
Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.
- James Baldwin
-Lara is a weasel. I've always hated her. The only happy week I had as a child was when she fell from the roof and went into a coma. She came out of it, though. Everyone was so happy.
-Is that true? asked James.
-No, said Grieve. But they would have been happy. Everyone thinks she's so clever. And I would be happy if she went away and never came back.
- Jesse Ball
When you put your trust in your dad, he will feel the responsibility of that trust and try harder than ever to understand and to help. As your father, he is entitled to inspiration on your behalf. His advice to you will be the heartfelt expressions of someone who knows and loves you. Your dad wants more than anything for you to be happy and successful, so why would you not want to trust someone like that? Boys, trust your dad.
- M Russell Ballard
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
- Oscar Wilde
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
- Oscar Wilde
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
- Oscar Wilde
Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.
- Oscar Wilde
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
- Ernie Banks
any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
- Clive Barker
Any fool can be happy.It takes a man w a real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep
- Clive Barker
Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him.
"Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her.
"It takes a man with real heart"
he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest
"to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
- Clive Barker
I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
- Gary Barlow
I know you were just trying to help. But I passed the point of help a long time ago. Look, I know about your people and customs, and I know you were raised inside a cage. The last thing you need is to be saddled with a man who can barely walk. Why don't you just go and get your own place and live? I'll be happy to put you on all my accounts. You'll never want for anything. (Adron)
I can't do that. (Livia)
Why not? (Adron)
Because I love you. (Livia)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And if I die? (Fang)
I'll know and I won't be happy. Remember, wolf, I'm one of the few beings who can follow you into the afterworld and seriously fuck you up there. Don't fail me. (Thorn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why would you help us? (Delphine)
I hear stupidity is a fatal disease. Doing my own experimentation to see if that's true or not. If I survive, we'll know it's not. If I die...well, it'll suck. Bad. And I won't be happy. (Asmodeus)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.
- Max Barry
I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
- Drew Barrymore
The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy.
- Mischa Barton
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason When we waste time, we waste happiness.
- L Frank Baum
Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose."
"I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.
- Charles M Schulz
Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy?
CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!
- Charles M Schulz
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
- Blaise Pascal
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
- Blaise Pascal
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
- Albert Camus
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
- Albert Camus
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
- Albert Camus
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
- Albert Camus
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience
- Albert Camus
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
- Albert Camus
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
- Albert Camus
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
The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.
- Antony Beevor
What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.
- Jennifer Belle
I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each otherand dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
- L M Montgomery
Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
- L M Montgomery
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
If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus..
- Hilaire Belloc
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
- Walter Benjamin
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
- Arnold Bennett
The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.
- Ingmar Bergman
I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.
- Haruki Murakami
Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
- Haruki Murakami
I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
- Haruki Murakami
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
- Valerie Bertinelli
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
- Augustine Birrell
Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature's design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.
- Chetan Bhagat
I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.
- George Harrison
I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.
- Juliette Binoche
You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.
- Juliette Binoche
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
- Holly Black
I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.
- Michael Bloomberg
I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.
- Michael Bolton
I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
- Debby Boone
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
- Samuel Johnson
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
- Samuel Johnson
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
- Samuel Johnson
People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
- Ray Bradbury
Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.
- Ray Bradbury
We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing...
It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
- Ray Bradbury
You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't your head it all your life? I want to be happy people say. Well aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation ? And you must admit that our culture provides plenty of these.
- Ray Bradbury
It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.
- Chris Brady
The only way to BE happy is to GIVE happy.
- Chris Brady
I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
- Russell Brand
I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
- Georg Brandes
There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering one. But ever since that night in Dover prison I have never been tempted to break my vow.. My Parents always drummed into me that all you have life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name you'll never be happy.
- Richard Branson
If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.
- Madeleine L Engle
If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
- Madeleine L Engle
You're special.
I'm special.
The whole world's special, so don't you forget it.
The universe wants us
All to be happy,
Full of smiles and all that stuff,
All that stuff
That's happy and smiley.
So get happy, happy, happy right now!
Get happy, happy, happy right now!
Get happy, happy, happy right now!
- Libba Bray
Do you like him? Ty asked. "Not that I care." "I do," I said, because it was true. Even though it didn't matter anymore. "Not that I care you don't care. Though you clearly do care, and I don't care about that either." "Well, I don't care that you don't care that I don't care. In fact i'm glad. Because, um, if I were seeming someone that I liked, I'd want you to be happy for me.""Are you seeing someone?" I asked, pretty sure he wasn't. "Not that I care.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
{Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain't gonna be happy in heaven either!}www.nancybbrewer.com
From new books coming soon- 3rd in Carolina Rain series.
- Nancy B Brewer
Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal.
Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
- Rita Mae Brown
My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
- Garth Brooks
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H Jackson Brown Jr
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama
Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.
- Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Dalai Lama
If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!
- Dalai Lama
It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there's always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
- Zig Ziglar
Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things. They wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference Adrienne thought, was that most young people seemed to thing that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed that they lay in the past.
- Nicholas Sparks
Deep in her heart, she wasn't exactly sure she deserved to be happy, nor she believed that she was worthy of someone like him
- Nicholas Sparks
She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.
- Nicholas Sparks
People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.
- Nicholas Sparks
I saw the way she was looking at you, and I knew that she still loved you. More than that, I know she always will. It breaks my heart, but you know what? I'm still in love with her, and to me that means that I want nothing more than for her to be happy in life. I want that more than anything. It's all I've ever wanted for her.
- Nicholas Sparks
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
- Charles Farrar Browne
By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we have to be sorry and punish ourselves if we don't succeed in doing so. This is a perversion of a very beautiful idea: that everyone has a right to control his own destiny and to improve his life.
- Pascal Bruckner
Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?
- E A Bucchianeri
it's better to be happy...if you can..!!
- Charles Bukowski
my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw
- Charles Bukowski
Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.
- Emma Bull
I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.
- Billie Burke
If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
- Stephen Chbosky
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
- Edmund Burke
I just want you to know that where ever life takes you, I'll always be happy for you as long as its something that makes you happy because that's all that really makes me happy. Why? I'm just listening to my heart and all it's telling me is to understand. Which in a way I can but then again I can't. I'm use to it all though because not everyone lives a fair life if you know what I mean.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
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