Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

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

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

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?

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

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.

I don’t get bored.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

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

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

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.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

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

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

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

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

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

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

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?