Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

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

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

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.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

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

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

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

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

Where thou art, that is home.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

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

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Smiles are the language of love.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

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 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.

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 can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

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 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.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Life well spent is long.

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

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

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

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

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

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

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?