I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

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

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

I am in my own head most of the time.

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

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I think that success is having fun.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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?‘

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

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

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.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

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

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

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

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

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Confine yourself to the present.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.