A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

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.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

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.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I take my sleep very, very important.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

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

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

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

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

We love things we love what they are.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

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

When you get angry, your options narrow.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

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

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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.

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.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.