Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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

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

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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

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

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

When in doubt, don’t.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

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

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

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.‘

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

I have wondered about time all my life.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

I think that success is having fun.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

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.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

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

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

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

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

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

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

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.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.