Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

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.

I think that I’m perfect.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

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

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

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

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

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

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.

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.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

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

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

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

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

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

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

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

Our intention creates our reality.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

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

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Where thou art, that is home.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.