Happiness Quotes (4027 Quotes)

I met a girl who sang the blues, And I asked her for some happy news But she just smiled and turned away

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

After all we could get on very happily if aviation, wireless, television and the like advanced no further than at present.... Dare I even suggest, at the risk of being lynched by some of my hearers, that the sum of human happiness would not necessarily be reduced if for ten years every physical and chemical laboratory were closed and the patient and resourceful energy in them transferred to the lost art of getting on together and finding the formula for making both ends meet in the scale of human life. Much, of course, we should lose by this universal scientific holiday ... but human happiness would not necessarily suffer.

The kids were very happy, they woke me up and took me to their room which they had decorated. It looked like they had done a lot of special planning and they were enjoying. It was a pleasant surprise for me.

I don't think we have slipped talent-wise. I think we're talented enough to play with anybody. But I do sense our guys are not happy, not satisfied, and they shouldn't be, with last season. There really was some embarrassment there for all of us. No doubt

I do dread that (the injuries). Truth of the matter being, if the Air Force had been the end of Bryce's career I think I would have been a happy man because I wouldn't have to worry about him getting hurt. But since that's his profession, he chose it, I'm glad for him.

What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.

Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

There's a kind of happy giddiness going on, ... There's a lot of action, and there's a very upbeat feel going on.

I signed a two-year contract. My goal, obviously, is to get to the NBA. Right now I can tell you I'm quite content and happy being here. Albuquerque is like my second home. I've set up shop there, I've got a home there and I've got a girlfriend there, so I'm pretty happy. But if something were to come up - and that's a real if-if situation - but if there was an opportunity to move up I may have to consider that.

Vital spark of heav'nly flame Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

I am very happy, as far as how all four lines, all six defensemen and the goalie played tonight. The key to us becoming a better team and a competitive team in this league was our work habits and our accountability. And if we lose that, we are an average to a below-average team - as we've seen when we don't work hard.

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

It is not possible to create a perfect society for an imperfect man. Even if we transhipped the present man to a society where the Sacred Self has been found again, this man would be neither happy, nor fulfilled in such a society because he IS NOT read for it. For him, the perfect society is under no circumstance communism, but capitalism, being a man that dream that he can be rich too someday, that what he will gather will create a capital, a man for who cheating, lying and stealing are a part of the every day life, and if we chase them away, we would chase the man from himself. This is the man nowadays and this is why the capitalist system is the only system in which, even if he feels frustrated and anguished, he deems himself free of himself, even if he is not free at all

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.

We dedicate a healthy, happy, safe learning place for our boys and girls today.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

It's an excellent life. I'm rich. I'm happy. I have a great job. I travel hither and yon to fabulous places. I'm surrounded by wonderful, interesting people. I live a privileged life -- hugely privileged.... It would be absurd to pretend that it's anything different.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

Any time you are injured and can't play the way you want to play, it is frustrating. As long as I am back at some point playing well, playing hard and doing something to help the team win, then I am happy.

We made another good run, but we didn't get the win light that round. I'm not the guy to paint a happy picture at this point. We've got a great team and a great car, now we just have to get it done.

Happy days aren't here again, but this is a real surprise and shows that the industry is coming back a little bit stronger than we were suspecting.

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

It's our job to win and make her happy. No matter where we are, we feel that smile.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

He who has given up both victory and defeat, he, the contented, is happy.

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.

He's fine - he ate up last night and there is not a mark on him. He's totally sound and happy. We will just try and freshen him up now. The owner is coming down on Wednesday and we will discuss it then but the sensible thing to do seems to be give him a bit of a break then start working back towards Cheltenham.

For truly in adverse fortune the worst sting of misery is to have been happy.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

He's not very happy. Would you be You're in a heated battle to win a starting job. You get told by your head coach in the morning that you're going to be a backup. I thought he played well Friday night, but this gives us the best chance to be successful. As a team player I am sure he is accepting it. I'm certainly sure he doesn't like it.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.

No, never. I never thought on those lines. I was only thinking of the children and their happiness.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

My purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles And see the great Achilles.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

No one has the road of life mapped out. We pave away what's beneath our feet. If it leads to happiness, maybe someone will walk on.

I saw what Alex signed for that's a pretty cool number. But what are you going to do I have no complaints about coming back. I'm happy. One of the reasons I came back was to try and win (a third championship), but it's not something we can control now. We have the potential to do it. Obviously, it's going to be hard. It's a much harder challenge this year than last and that was very tough. We had three or four games that could have gone either way. But I don't see why we can't do it.

I wanted the ceiling mural to be very colorful, happy and full of hope, and the murals on the walls to have the more difficult issues that we were facing at the time and still facing today.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.