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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

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 happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

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

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

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 don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

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.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

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.

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.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

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.

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.

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

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

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

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

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

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

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

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

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?

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

As for our majority… one is enough.