If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

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.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

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.

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

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.

I don’t like being alone.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

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.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

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

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.