I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
Edmund HillaryI joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Ludwig van BeethovenI can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen KellerI don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.
Tom BradyThe greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur SchopenhauerTruth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Khalil GibranIf women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
H. L. MenckenOur love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.
Michelle ObamaI love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.
Vivienne WestwoodNecessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich NietzscheHappiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.
Robert Baden-PowellHappiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
Robert Baden-PowellSometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert SchweitzerTo suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James MadisonWhat do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma GandhiInstead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!
Joyce MeyerPerhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar WildeI’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.
Joel OsteenChrist didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
Fidel CastroThe mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaYou just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘
RihannaI like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.
AuroraThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph AddisonYou know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.
Warren BuffettI have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
Benjamin DisraeliTry and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
Robert Baden-PowellI’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.
Kurt CobainWatch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. PattonI like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.
Matthew McConaugheyThe wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. TolkienIt’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
Terry PratchettBeing young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.
Greta ThunbergIf small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart TolleIt is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel KantDo not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.
Stephen CurryMy mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.
Mr. TI am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. RooseveltFriendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA fool is wise in his eyes.
King SolomonIt’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
David ByrneMost folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham LincolnThere’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya AngelouI’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.
Billy GrahamThe happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George EliotA sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James MadisonLove is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice WalkerEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George OrwellDo I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.
Kanye WestDo not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
BuddhaIt’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.
Brian EnoIn my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.
Wayne DyerThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry FordTruth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich NietzscheWe can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHave you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest HemingwayI know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.
Haruki Murakami