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Quotes About Happiness

Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.'
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
My part as an actor ends on the last working day. I think the success or failure only really matters to the producer or whoever it matters to. For me, when I finish the film, I'm done, and if I'm happy, that's that.
~ Nithya Menen
My mother told me you marry whoever you want to, as long as you are happy. My parents are very accommodating, and I know they will always support me.
~ Sangram Singh
We used to have championships in the streets with my friends, and whoever scored a goal was the happiest boy in the world. Now, every time that I score, I go back to being a child: the happiness of scoring a goal is unexplainable.
~ Antoine Griezmann
Life is too short to give pain to others. I eat to the fullest, sleep long and make people laugh whole heartedly.
~ Bharti Singh
The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.
~ Kate Winslet
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
~ Claire Tomalin
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
~ Anne Lamott
I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.
~ Serena Williams
I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
~ Paige VanZant
Id is the festival which I celebrate wholeheartedly. I love to celebrate it with family and friends.
~ Sana Khan
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
~ Francois Fenelon
I need a nice wholesome girl.
~ Ray J
If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.
~ Virginia Postrel
Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.
~ Lucy Larcom
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.
~ Charles Dickens
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
~ Dan Savage
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.
~ Mary Oliver
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.
~ Rufus Wainwright
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.
~ Charles Wolfe