But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

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

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

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

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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

Life is precious.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

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

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I live in a crazy time.

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

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

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.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

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

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

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.