It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

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

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

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

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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.

I think the word rich is all relative.

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

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

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

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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

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

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

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

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.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

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!

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

You can be happy where you are.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.