I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

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

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

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.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

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 don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

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

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.