There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

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.

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.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

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

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

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

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

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.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

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?

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

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.

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

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

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

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

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‚Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.‘

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

And 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.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

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

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.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.