When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

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

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

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

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

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.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

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.

You make more money if you’re generous.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

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.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

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.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

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

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

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

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing – no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn’t happen that much anymore.

When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

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.

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.