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

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

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.

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.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

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

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.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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!

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

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

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

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

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

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.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

Life well spent is long.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

People want to feel hopeful.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

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

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.