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

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

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

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.

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

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.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

I’m always relaxed.

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

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

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

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

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.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

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

For greed all nature is too little.

Love is trembling happiness.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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

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

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

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.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.