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

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

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

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

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.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Affluence means influence.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

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.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

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

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.