He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

We were poor, but we smiled.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

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.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

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.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

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

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

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

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Life must be lived as play.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.