Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

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

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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

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

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

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.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I am happy and I’m single.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

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.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

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.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

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.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

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.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

The best way out is always through.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.