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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

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.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

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.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

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

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

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

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

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.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

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

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

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

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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 really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

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

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.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

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

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

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.