He has the most who is most content with the least.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

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.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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

If you can’t eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don’t bring it.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

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

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

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

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.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

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?

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

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.

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

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

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

I’m happiest with my family around me.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

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.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

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.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

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

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.