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

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

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

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

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

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

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.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Each day provides its own gifts.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

The earth laughs in flowers.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Never get out of bed before noon.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

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

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