Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

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

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

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.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

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

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Peace begins with a smile.

Life well spent is long.

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

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

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

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.

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.

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.

I think that success is having fun.

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

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

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

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

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

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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.

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

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

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

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

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

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

Money can’t buy life.

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

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

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

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