If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

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

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The American people have not become heartless.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

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

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.