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

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

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

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

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

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

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.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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

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

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

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.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

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?

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

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

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

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.

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

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.