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

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

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 not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

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.

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.

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

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

I think that success is having fun.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

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.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

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?

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

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

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

I’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

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.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

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

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

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

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.