I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

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.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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.

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

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 heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

I always entertain great hopes.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

I think that success is having fun.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Pessimism never won any battle.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

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

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.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.