What does it mean to be “happy”?
A cynic might say that to be happy is the condition of not being unhappy. The strict dictionary definition is something like: ” feeling pleasure and enjoyment because of your life, or being pleased or glad about a particular situation or event.”
The happy quotes we have selected reflect both viewpoints.
It’s interesting to observe how the theme of money finds its way into these quotes many times. The connection between money and being happy is an issue that is always hotly contested.
Does having money make you happy? Possibly not, but as David Lee Roth wryly points out: “Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.”
Checkout our selection of happy quotes and see if you agree:
1. Marcel Proust:
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
2. Abraham Lincoln:
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
3. Socrates:
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.
4. Audrey Hepburn:
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
5. Oscar Wilde:
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
6. Lyndon B. Johnson:
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
7. Woody Allen:
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.
8. Orson Welles:
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
9. Albert Camus:
It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
10. Edgar Allan Poe:
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
11. Brooke Shields:
Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door.
12. Edith Wharton:
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.
13. H. L. Mencken:
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
14. Arnold Schwarzenegger:
Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
15. Robert Anthony:
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
Which of our happy quotes did you prefer?
Are you in the cynical camp, or the optimistic one? Do you have a favorite happy quote?
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