Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

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

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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

He who is contented is rich.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

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.

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

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

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

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.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

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.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Men want to make women happy.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

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.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.