If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

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.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

I think that success is having fun.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Love is trembling happiness.

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

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Always do whatever’s next.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

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

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.