If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

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

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

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.

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

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Smiles are the language of love.

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

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.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

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.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

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

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

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 Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

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.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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.‘

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.