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.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Smiles are the language of love.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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

We were poor, but we smiled.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

I think that success is having fun.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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.

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.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

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.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

You can be happy where you are.

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

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.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

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

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.

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

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

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

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.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

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

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.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.