Be happy quotes

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.

German Proverb

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Immanuel Kant

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

For every minute you’re angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Anonymous

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world, we must do something.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Hans Christian Andersen

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Francis H. Bradley

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Archibald Rutledge

We're fucking thrilled and fucking amazed to be here!

Iggy Pop

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Gerald Jampolsky

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear.

Jean de la Bruyere

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life, I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.

Francesca Annis

You can be right or you can be happy.

Gerald Jampolsky

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread, there may be.

David Gayson

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Isaac Asimov

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things, not the great occasions that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Bob Hope

Happiness is only real when shared.

Into the Wild

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Ben Stein

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Frances Rodman

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Arnold H. Glasgow

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear,
If it is happy it is horrible to lose,
So the one is pretty equal to the other.

Jean de la Bruyere

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Reputation makes you rich or poor, character makes you happy or miserable.

Anonymous

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs