I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
Henry David ThoreauA sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James MadisonResolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel JohnsonWhatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
Wayne DyerI’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.
Tom BradyEach day provides its own gifts.
Marcus AureliusIf you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.
Haruki MurakamiThe earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.
Mr. TI’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.
Billy GrahamI don’t try to control my days.
Paulo CoelhoIf you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.
Karl LagerfeldI don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.
Terry PratchettGenerally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
Anne FrankWe must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George EliotEvery day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheToo many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.
Richard BransonYes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice WalkerSo many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
Joel OsteenSometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.
Paulo CoelhoMany people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
Eckhart TolleBe more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI think everyone should be with who they love.
Dolly PartonCompared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
William JamesUse your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard ShawA man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David ThoreauThe important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Joseph AddisonThere is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel JohnsonConcentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
Haruki MurakamiIf thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
EpicurusPrecepts 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.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques RousseauRemember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale CarnegieDelhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.
Virat KohliWe are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Winston ChurchillThe least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl JungThe people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.
George BestNumber of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
Dalai LamaCage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.
Conor McGregorThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Thomas JeffersonIt makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne DyerScience and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
Thich Nhat HanhIt seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John SteinbeckEverything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerHow to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
William JamesAmong the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
Haruki MurakamiI only want my work to make people happy.
Jackie ChanPeace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.
Thich Nhat HanhMan needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand RussellRelish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.
Anthony HopkinsI need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Jim CarreyIn the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.
Thich Nhat HanhYou find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel JohnsonApplause is a receipt, not a bill.
Dale CarnegieDo not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David ThoreauNo married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H. L. MenckenWhere fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca