A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

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

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.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

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

Peace is its own reward.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

I always wanted a family.

Life well spent is long.

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

Simple goes a long way.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

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

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.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

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

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

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 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.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

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.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.