Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

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

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

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

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

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

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.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

The soul is healed by being with children.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

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.

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.‘

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.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you’ll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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

Love is trembling happiness.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.