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

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.

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

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Smiles are the language of love.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

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

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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.

Be content to seem what you really are.

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

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Precepts 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.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

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.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

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.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

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.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

In 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.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

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.