I just think you people would be happier back in Africa…

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about,…

— Larry Rivers

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.

— Martin Seligman

Expressing gratitude to others has been shown to make people happier.

— Zahid Abas

People are happier than us:àNever compare your life with others.

— Mazher

“I’ve realized that people are happier thinking what they know is true. Telling them the actual truth doesn’t always improve things.” Cowboy”

— Nathan Van Coops

I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and…

— Sam Rockwell

In life, you should be allowed to express yourself. People are happier like this.

— Hector Bellerin

Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?

— Rob Payne

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

— Duke Ellington

South Africa used to seem so far away. Then it came home to me. It began to signify the meaning of white hatred here.…

— June Jordan

“research in positive psychology has been showing that gratitude makes people happier”

— Shea Matthew Fisher

Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than…

— Dan Buettner

“They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier.”

— Margaret Atwood

Religious people are happier.

— Deborah Norville