Don’t worry, be happy. The following are proverbs and quotes about happiness and being happy.
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A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it.
Albert EinsteinA deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
John FlorioA happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard ShawA happy man does not hear the clock strike.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane AustenSource: Mansfield Park
A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
(unknown author)Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
Thomas JeffersonAll happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo TolstoyAn agricultural life is one eminently calculated for human happiness and human virtue.
Josiah QuincyAnd they lived happily ever after.
(unknown author)Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
LaoziBeautiful girls are seldom happy, intelligent boys are seldom beautiful.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
SocratesChocolate is happiness that you can eat.
Ursula KohauptCome, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
Chaim PotokEat this, you'll feel better.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter series
Quoted: Remus Lupin
Chocolate is used to treat the effects of a dementor attack.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGarlic is not only a flavor, it is the secret of happiness.
Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.
Yuval Noah HarariSource: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest HemingwayHappiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
Happiness is a butterfly.
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel HawthorneHappiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember.
Oscar LevantHappiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim RohnHappiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
Charlotte BrontëHappy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!
W.J. HollandHe who has no intelligence is happy with it.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
Alfred Lord TennysonI am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J.D. SalingerI thought up an ending for my book. "And he lives happily ever after, till the end of his days."
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Bilbo
Quote from the movie
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
Charlotte BrontëSource: Jane Eyre
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Thorin
Is happiness just chemicals flowing through your brain or something more?
(unknown author)It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Mother TeresaIt is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.
J.M. BarrieSource: Peter Pan
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin FranklinIt is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Rabindranath TagoreLaughter is the best medicine.
Life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering, and knowledge is better than superstition and ignorance.
Steven PinkerMost of us can remember a time when a birthday, especially if it was one's own, brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Thomas MoorePeople are happy when they feel better off than their neighbors, unhappy when they feel worse off.
(unknown author)Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.
Anne BrontëSource: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother TeresaThe best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar WildeThe care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas JeffersonThe fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard ShawThe greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VoltaireThe key to happiness is good health and a bad memory
Ingrid Bergman