Quotes on “happiness”

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.