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

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

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.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Men want to make women happy.

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.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

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.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Be content to seem what you really are.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

As for our majority… one is enough.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

Money has a language of its own.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

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

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

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

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

I’m happy about working; I’m happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

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.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.