I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

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.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

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.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Belief creates the actual fact.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

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

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Smiles are the language of love.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

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.

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 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.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

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.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

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.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.