It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

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.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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.

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.

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

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

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

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

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

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.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

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.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

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

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

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.

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

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

Fun is good.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.