Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

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.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

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.

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

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

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.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

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.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

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.

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

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

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

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.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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.

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.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

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.

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

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

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.

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

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

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

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

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