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!

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.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

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

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

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

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

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.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

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

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

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.

Money can’t buy life.

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

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

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

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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