A Book to Wake You Up

“If the book we are reading does not wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So it will make us happy? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books.”
--Franz Kafka

Happy People

“When happy people join with other happy people, everyone gets happier. When miserable people join together, everyone is more miserable. And both types tend to shun the other.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Ease our Fear

“The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.”
--Thich Nhat Hạnh

Not Real Happiness

“I have the impression of being herded towards a uniform kind of happiness, toward a kind of happiness that doesn't really make me happy, that I am being conned by the powers that be.”
--Michel Houellebecq

Stop Trying, Go Have

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”
--Edith Wharton

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By All Means Marry

“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.”
--Socrates

Life Laughs

“Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; life smiles at you when you are happy; but life salutes you when you make others happy.”
--Charlie Chaplin

True Love

“True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.”
--Alexander the Great

The Only Good

“Reason, observation and experience; the holy Trinity of science, have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so.”
--Robert Green Ingersoll

Two Ways to Happiness

“There are two ways of being happy, we may either diminish our wants or augment our means, either will do, the result is the same.”
--Benjamin Franklin

Attitude Happens

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
--Dr. Seuss

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More Happy

“If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
--Roy T. Bennett

Happiness and Love

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”
--Helen Rowland

Happiness Byproduct

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a byproduct. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Blame Yourself

“Blame everything on yourself, and you’ll be stunned how happy you become.”
--Gary Vaynerchuk

Won't Be Happy

“You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.”
--Lucille Ball

Being Happy

“I never did anything according to what anyone else wanted. That's why I think I am happy.”
--Sandra Bullock

Make Yourself Happy

“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”
--Alice Walker

Take Risks

“Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.”
--Unknown

Reasonable Confidence

“Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”
--Norman Vincent Peale