Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

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

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

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.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Men want to make women happy.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.