Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

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.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

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.

What you are comes to you.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

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.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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

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

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

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

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

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.‘

My life has been very full.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

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.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘