There is more to loving someone than just making yourself happy. You have to want him to be happier than you are.
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
You need eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.
Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!
Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
Everybody knows that if they're happy then usually the people around them are happy, or that people around them happy make them a little happier; that's a proved thing, like "I give to you and you give to me"; they all know that but they haven't thought about it to the point of every action that they do. That's what it is with every action that you do, there's a reaction to it, and if you want a good reaction then you do a good action, and if you want a bad one, then you punch somebody.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.
Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.
I get happier every day. I have a sense of accomplishment every day of my life.
It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's previous existence, that there existed something like a soul-mate. The feeling of not being understood is heightened in marriage by the fact that one's entire life beforehand had the aim of finding a being who would understand one. But isn't it better to exist without such an illusion and look this great lonely truth straight in the eye?
. . . why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.
I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They'd be happier.
I have never been happier, or healthier, than I am right now.
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
Always wear a smile sometime during the day - it makes you feel happier and look younger.