The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

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.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves 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 lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

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.

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.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

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.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

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.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

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.

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.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

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.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

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

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

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

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

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

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.

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

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.