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Quotes About Happiness

I just had a wonderful life, and I couldn't ask for anything else.
~ Mavis Staples
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
~ Dalai Lama
I drink to the general joy o' the whole table." Macbeth
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth
I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
~ Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.
~ Terry Pratchett
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
~ Mayer Hawthorne
I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.
~ Marianne Faithfull
I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
~ Kristen Stewart
...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
~ Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.
~ Marcus Luttrell
I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.
~ Patsy Kensit
I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.
~ Jasper Carrott
Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.
~ Megyn Kelly
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
~ John Scalzi
I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.
~ Rafe Spall
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
~ Patti LaBelle
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
~ Tana French, In the Woods
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
~ Holly Black, Red Glove
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
~ Alain de Botton
Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Villette