Happy Quotes - Page 26

• I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

  Billy Wilder

  Happiness, Not Happy

  "Fictional character: Mr. Phillips". "Arise, My Love", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

  Herodotus

  Death, Men, Dying

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• This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Children, Kindness

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• Blonds look angelic, but can (oh, happy!) be fleshy as well.

  Mason Cooley

  Sex, Looks, Angelic

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• Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Doe, Excitement

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• How can you be afraid to feel? Isn't fear a feeling? If you're feeling fear, you've felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Powerful, Fear, Creativity

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• At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Responsibility, Men

  "Gooseberries". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

  Frank McCourt

  Happiness, Glowing, Recalls

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• Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

  Joyce Meyer

  Happiness, Forward In Life, Victory

  Joyce Meyer (1999). “Life in the Word Journal”, Harrison House

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• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

  Groucho Marx

  Positive, Good Morning, Happiness

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• Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Powerful, Helping Others

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• Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Joy, Lasts

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.87

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• Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Happiness, Personality

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• Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Integrity, Mean

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.220, Penguin

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

  David W. Wolfe

  Happiness, Writing, Son

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Live with the objective of being happy.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, Diversity, Unity

  1944 Diary entry, 6 Jul.

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  An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

  Lydia M. Child

  Happiness, Helping Others, Best Effort

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