Happy Quotes

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
- Mignon McLaughlin

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
- Sophocles

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
- Guilaume Apollinaire

I hate being happy. It pisses me off. Because I know if I try to grab it, it will slip away, like one of those goddamn water snakes. And I hate just looking. I always try to grab.
- D.H. Mondfleur

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
- William R. Inge

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
- Leslie Caron

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault