The soul is healed by being with children.

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.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

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.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

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.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

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

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

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.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

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.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.