The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

A true man hates no one.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Where there is love there is life.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

We were poor, but we smiled.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.