It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

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.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

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

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

I am who I am today because of my mother.

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

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

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.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

We live in ugly times.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Money can’t buy life.

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 really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

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.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

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

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.