How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

I am happy and I’m single.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

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

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

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

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

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.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

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

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

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

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.

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.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

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

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

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.

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

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

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.