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Quotes About Happy

Emotion goes inside-out. Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true. If I can make you smile, I can make you happy. If I can make you frown, I can make you sad. Emotion, in this sense, goes outside-in.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether our work fulfills us.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Those three things--autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward--are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether our work fulfills us.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
And so fate—if you can call it that—changed course over the rainforest canopy, and kindnesses and miracles poured like quenching rain after a drought. Such is the nature of happy endings.
~ Amy Tan
We're journeying constantly, but there is always a machine and books, and your body is always close to me and the look in your eyes never changes. People are saying we will be miserable, we will regret, but we are happy, we are laughing always, we are singing. We are talking Spanish and French and
~ Anais Nin
I'm glad, too.
~ Ann M. Martin
You can't accommodate a hundred different opinions, and you can't ignore them. All you can do is provide people with the illusion that they participated in the decision. For some reason, that's enough to make people happy. This is the basis for all democracies.
~ Scott Adams
You don't think happy endings are stupid anymore? Your question is irrelevant, Imogen said. This isn't the end.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Il più inquieto e felice di tutti i mortali
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't waste effort on a thing that ends in a petty triumph unless you are happy with a life of petty success
~ John D. Rockefeller
Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.
~ Virgil Miller Newton
My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.
~ Julia Child
My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.
~ Jennifer Lynch
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
~ Julia Cameron
I have the nicest life in the world.
~ Alan Bean
I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.
~ Andrew Bird
May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
~ Coco Chanel
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
~ Edward Gibbon
People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
~ Edward Norton
Overall, brain activation indicating empathy was stronger in HSPs than those without the trait when looking at photos of anyone's face showing strong emotion of any type (and even more so for people close to them than strangers) and more for happy than unhappy expressions.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Ginger twitched his ears and the loose skin on his back and legs to let Jerry know he was here and he was happy. Then he lowered his head down on his paws again and he let out a deep sigh that sounded almost like a sob, there was in it so much relief and pain and pleasure and remembering.
~ Eleanor Estes
One reason for this ability to cope with disaster is that nothing ever happens to us except what happens in our minds. Unhappiness is an inward, not an outward, thing. It is as independent of circumstances as is happiness. Consider the truly happy people you know. I think it is unlikely that you will find that circumstances have made them happy. They have made themselves happy in spite of circumstances.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
This time the Empress was supposed to have asked the celebrated healer and pretender to miraculous powers, John Joseph Gassner: "Will my daughter be happy?" His reply was suitably gnomic: "There are crosses for all shoulders." 3
~ Antonia Fraser
A man should neither brag about a long tenure spent as an employee at any position of an organization nor boost of a happy, long-married life with a woman as both are nothing but manifestation of slavery.
~ Anuj Somany