Sayings about Being Happy!
If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. ~ Chinese Proverb
The rabbi drinks the wine and asks the others to be happy. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead. ~ Scottish Proverbs
He who would be happy should stay at home. ~ Greek Proverbs
Get married and you will be happy for a week; slaughter a pig and you will be happy for a month; become a priest and you will be happy for the rest of your life. ~ Polish Proverbs
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others. ~ Chinese Proverb
Being happy is better than being king. ~ Nigerien Proverb
Being happy in one’s home is better than being a chief. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
Men fated to be happy need not haste. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. ~ English Proverbs
There are two kinds of men: those who could be happy and are not, and those who search for happiness and find it not. ~ Arabian Proverb
Quotations about Being Happy
He who marries on a rainy day will be happy for the rest of his life. ~ French Proverb
It’s never too late — never too late to start over, never too late to be happy. ~ Jane Fonda
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. ~ Oscar Wilde
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours. ~ William James
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~ William R. Inge
Better be happy than wise. ~ Author Unknown
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~ Dean William R. Inge
Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy. ~ Jennie Jerome Churchill
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~ Albert Camus
When money is your god, you are never going to be fulfilled, you are never going to be happy, because no matter how much you have, it is not enough. ~ Ted Turner
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. ~ Edward Frederic Benson
If you want to be happy, be. ~ Leo Tolstoy
To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness. ~ Johann G. Fichte
To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.~ W.H. Auden
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. ~ Cyril Connolly
To live we must conquer incessantly; we must have the courage to be happy.~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. ~ Michael Leunig
Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. ~ Mob Connor
The biggest self-deception on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy. ~ Author Unknown
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ~ Edmund Burke
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~ Author Unknown
Others think it’s a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable. ~ Paul Little
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. ~ Walter Savage Landor
The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you live at all. ~ Leo C. Rosten
We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. ~ Thomas Merton
You can be right or you can be happy. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. ~ Gerald Jampolsky
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. ~ Thomas Fuller
The way to be happy is to make others happy. ~ Author Unknown
Be happy or die. ~ Rob Cohen
The best we can do is to go through life trying to be happy and helping those we meet along the way. ~ Kate Smith
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can’t be happy as a success, it’s very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. ~ Michael Korda
You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain. ~ Giacomo Leopardi
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. ~ Helen Rowland
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness. ~ William E. Gladstone
If you can’t be happy where you are, it’s a cinch you can’t be happy where you ain’t. ~ Charles “Tremendous” Jones
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.~ Artemus Ward
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have. ~ Woody Allen
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future. ~ Bertrand Russell
To forget oneself is to be happy. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
There are two ways of being happy: we must either diminish our wants or augment our means — either may do — the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. ~ Benjamin Franklin
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. ~ Dick Gregory
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~ Dalai Lama
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ~ George Orwell
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~ John Stuart Mill
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~ St. Augustine
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. ~ Walter Benjamin
You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~ Lavetta Sue Wegman
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so. ~ Blaise Pascal
When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying? ~ Tony Campolo
It’s just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little. ~ Marvin Traub
The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless. ~ Ko Hung
If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body. ~ Roberto Clemente
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ~ Albert Camus
To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy… is the true aim and end to life. ~ Llewelyn Powers
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. ~ Archibald Rutledge
Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. ~ Mark Victor Hansen
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. ~ Robert Henri
Clowns wear a face that’s painted intentionally on them so they appear to be happy or sad. What kind of mask are you wearing today? ~ Author Unknown
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. ~ Ben Stein
We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same. ~ Anne Frank
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. ~ Bertrand Russell
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
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.~ Edith Wharton
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. ~ Charles De Montesquieu
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. ~ Don Marquis
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~ Cynthia Nelms
I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God. ~ Madonna
We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have — and not worrying about what we don’t have. ~ Ken Keyes Jr.
We all want to be happy, and we’re all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet. ~ William Boyd
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
We must be doing something to be happy. ~ William Hazlitt
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. ~ William Hazlitt
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. ~ Dan Millman
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~ Taisen Deshimaru
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. ~ Groucho Marx
To be happy, drop the words “if only” and substitute instead the words “next time.” ~ Smiley Blanton
Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!~ Virgil
If you haven’t been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it’s much harder.You need more luck. ~ Simone De Beauvoir
It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.~ Alan Alda
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. ~ Albert Camus
Don’t worry, be happy. ~ Author Unknown
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. ~ Benjamin Franklin
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ~ Barbara De Angelis
Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own way, perfect. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I know that unless I’m true to myself I couldn’t be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character. ~ Betty White
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ~ Anne Frank
It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new. ~ Author Unknown
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick. ~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness. ~ Johann G. Fichte
If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. ~ Charles De Montesquieu
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. ~ Foster C. McClellan
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. ~ Elizabeth Carter
To be happy, you must forget yourself. Learn benevolence. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~ Karl Reiland
Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. ~ William Dempster Hoard
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. ~ John S. Bonnell
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.~ Dr. Robert Anthony
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Being happy is something you have to learn. ~ Harrison Ford