Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

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

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

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

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

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.

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.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

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

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

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

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

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

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

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

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

I have no human feelings.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.