If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

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

Money can’t buy life.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

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.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

The soul is healed by being with children.

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

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I only want my work to make people happy.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

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.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

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.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

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.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

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

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Money ain’t everything.

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.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.