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Quotes About Happier

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
~ Charles E. Wilson
There is no greater grief in misery than to turn our thoughts back to happier times.*
~ Dante
Doth someone say that there be gods above? There are not, no, there are not. let no fool, led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence; for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities to waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those who live calm pious lives day by day.
~ Alan R. Pratt
I suppose I'd better …" he was saying, making a show of letting everyone know he was at least considering getting involved, even though he was happier behind a desk than wrestling with drunks.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.
~ Rebecca Loos
If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.
~ Indira Gandhi
Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering, High in the purer, happier air.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
My son deems himself a great and heroic prince; but, alas! our miserable age does not afford scope for heroism or greatness. His daring spirit might have suited the happier times of our ancestors; but the present state requires not an emperor, but a cautious steward of the last relics of our fortunes.
~ Edward Gibbon
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
~ Alfred
HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
~ Alfred Tennyson
Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world
~ Bertrand Russell
it was impossible to imagine where in this crowded domestic arrangement you might find the happier twin sister of loneliness: privacy
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
This is the truth the poet sings,That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am sick of haunting myself from within like an old house. I would be happier as a hunted witch.
~ Erica Jong
studying Passover will help prepare you for the Kingdom to come. Christianity isn't just for now, of course. What we see is not all we get. We expect happier days by and by. When the King comes He will act as He did before. He will celebrate the Jewish feasts (see Zech. 14:16, e.g.).
~ Zola Levitt
In the summer Darkwater was beautiful. It was as if its happier ghosts—perhaps there were summertime ghosts—lived then.
~ Dorothy Eden
If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I don't like protecting pharmaceutical industries and increasing their profits and making our drugs cost more. If the U.S. Democrats could get rid of those problems I'd be much happier.
~ Elizabeth May
We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
~ Willard Libby
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.
~ ballard j g v
By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.
~ Barbara Holland
I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
~ Garry Shandling
In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home.
~ Gretchen Rubin