How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

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.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

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.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

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.

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

To hold a pen is to be at war.

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

Our life is made by the death of others.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Life well spent is long.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

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.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

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

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.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

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

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

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.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

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.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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