If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

My life has been very full.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

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

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?

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Affluence means influence.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

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.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The soul is healed by being with children.

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 miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

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.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

I think the word rich is all relative.

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

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

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

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.