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

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

He who is contented is rich.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

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.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

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!

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

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

The soul is healed by being with children.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

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

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

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.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

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

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.