It's an illusion to believe that you can be happy when no one else is. Or that other people will not be affected by your unhappiness.
— John Brockman
Happy is measuring your life against the options and not wanting to change it. It's getting the best of a series of bargains, bad or otherwise.
— Chaz Brenchley
Fake flattery or not, his words spiked my system with happy. Behold, the power of a guy paying attention to a girl.
— Jenny B. Jones
Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.
— Susanna Kaysen
Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.
— Benjamin Franklin
It is not what happens to me in life that defines how happy or sad I am but what I believe about it.
— Bebhinn Ramsay
Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
You're paid a lot and you're not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don't want or need - for which you need more money.
— Douglas Adams
Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.
— Arnaud Desjardins
Pleasure can impact your happiness for better or worse, but it is not happiness.
— James Randall Robison
I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
The skills of becoming happy turn out to be almost entirely different from the skills of not being sad, not being anxious, or not being angry.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.
— Linda Gordon
Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it's adhering to our scripts or not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not.
— Daniel Woodrell
Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?
— Christopher Atkins
It's not right to believe that the only way you're gonna get a job and the only way you're gonna get a man or be happy is by being so skinny.
— Maria Conchita Alonso
Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.
— Stephen Richards
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
— Lydia M. Child
I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
— Janet Jackson
The secret of a happy life is to do work you enjoy and then you'll be too busy to know whether you're happy or not.
— George Bernard Shaw
Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy. — Augusten Burroughs
We are very happy. Or, no. We are not happy, exactly. But we love each other very much, and this charges our lives with shape and light. — Anne Enright
A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it. — Vironika Tugaleva
If you're having a not so good day, all you have to do is read or watch something with an happy ending. — Karlene Pitters
Life goes on.. no matter you are happy or not.. no matter you want someone to be happy or not. — Vikrmn
For me it's the same thing if the fans boo or not, because my role is the villain. I'm happy when you clap me though. — Alberto Del Rio
To bear a child or to get married is not the primary goal for a lady who wants to become successful in life — Sunday Adelaja
As long as you're not hurting anyone or anything, including your future self, do only that which makes you happy. — Kamand Kojouri
One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! — T. S. Eliot
Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It's about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can. — John Spence
Web projects aren't done until I'm happy, or someone changes the password to the server. A formal release does not stop me from working on it more. — Chris Milk
I love music so much. I've got something going all the time. I've gotta be singing. I've gotta be creating music, or I'm not happy. — Ashley Monroe
Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not ... and just like this ... — Abhimanyu Jha
Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ... — Nancy Mitford
Am I happy or unhappy? It's not a very important question. — Albert Camus
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable. — J.I. Packer
Was I happy? Or was I just not aware? — Philip Seymour Hoffman
Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves. — M.F. Moonzajer
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you. — Clara Schumann
Your task is not to judge or punish. Karma will take care of that. Your task is to love. — Brian Weiss
I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple. — Gillian Flynn
Most people do not read books on relationships if they feel their relationships are healthy, happy, or easy. — Van Moody
Whether we're happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important. — Joyce Meyer
It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not — Ossie Davis
Whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time. — Chang-rae Lee
Everyone's life matters and everyone deserves to be happy but not everyone is in a place where they think, or even believe, happiness is possible. — Cheryl B. Evans
You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy. — Vanessa Hudgens
Care not who is richer or more learned than thou, if none be more generous and loving. — John Lancaster Spalding
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not. — Willem De Kooning
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw
Relationships based on selfish reasons will not give you love, fulfillment or inner-happiness. — Hina Hashmi
I played with the Lust-Cats once in Denver. I've seen Happy Jawbone a bunch of times, but I can't remember if I played those shows or not. — King Tuff
People fucking love their own opinions and are all too happy to throw 'em at you, whether you ask or not. You have to be happy with yourself. — Kylie Scott
Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad. — Lindsey Kelk
I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me. — Bat For Lashes
Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable. — Philip Gulley
Superpowers or not, a person should be allowed to be simply happy, without feeling like they need to strip off their skin. — Kelly Thompson
ALWAYS BE HAPPY IS NOT IMPORTANT , WHAT IMPORTANT IS TO FIGHT THE STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES US HAPPY OR UNHAPPY !! — Tushar Upreti
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn. — Robert Jackson Bennett
But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither. — Nathanael West
Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy 2 c u happy ... — Paulo Coelho
I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape. — Jenny Hval
Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists. — Leon Brown
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw
I know for a fact that I am not as fulfilled, happy or passionate about life if I have not spent time helping others. — Rachele Brooke Smith
Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale. — Rumi
If you think someone or something other than yourself is responsible for your happiness or success, I'd guess you're not that happy or successful. — Rob Liano
They grew fat and happythe horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter. — Sara Gruen
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
And they lived ever after, whether they were happy about it or not. — Allyse Near
One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means. — John Malkovich
The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have. — Oliver Gaspirtz
I'm happy that I have a look, but I don't over-analyse whether or not it's beautiful or ugly. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things — Thabang Gideon Magaola
A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation. — Stephen Fry
Suddenly I'm happy there in the fuzziness of sleep, and maybe this is what happiness is - not a dream or a promise - just living for the moment. — Delphine De Vigan
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door. — Brooke Shields
I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone. — Daniel Keyes
When most people are happy, it's not really fun until you can share it with someone, especially someone you love, a mate or a friend. — Ken Wilber
I don't know if you're being smart or not, but I know that being smart doesn't always lead to being happy. And I'd rather be happy than anything else — Ryan Winfield
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him. — William Penn
To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety. — W. H. Auden
Do not wait for the future to be happy. You are happy now, or you are not. — Alan Cohen
The masses are not happy enough to want more out of life and not unhappy enough to reject their way of living or want a better life. — Gudjon Bergmann
It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School. — Frederick Lenz
Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince. — Ogwo David Emenike
Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you. — Mandy Hale
