It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‚all options are open‘ – meaning the threat of war.

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.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

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

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

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.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

He who is contented is rich.