A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

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

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

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

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

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

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.

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

A true man hates no one.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

My three children have brought me great joy.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

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

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

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.

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

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.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

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

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

My message is that God is a good God.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

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.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.