Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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

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.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

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.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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

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.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

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.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

I’m pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don’t stop – literally, all day.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

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

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

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.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

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

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

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

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

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

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

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

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

A home without books is a body without soul.

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

Peace begins with a smile.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The soul is healed by being with children.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

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.

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