Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

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.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I can dance to just about anything.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and 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.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

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

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

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.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

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.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

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.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Football is unconditional love.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

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

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