Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

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.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

Money ain’t everything.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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 all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

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

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Smiles are the language of love.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

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

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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 deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.