If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

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

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

I like to take it easy.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

There is so much that people take for granted.

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

It 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.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

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.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.