Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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

Sleep is the best meditation.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

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.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

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.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

People want to feel hopeful.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

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.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

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

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Love is trembling happiness.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I think that success is having fun.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

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.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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

I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

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.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

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.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.