Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

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

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.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

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

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

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

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

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

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

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.

Peace begins with a smile.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

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.

I think that success is having fun.

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.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

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.