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

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

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

Money ain’t everything.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

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.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

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

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

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 will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

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.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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

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.

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

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

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

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

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

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

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!

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

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

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

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

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

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.

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

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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.

Love is trembling happiness.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.