It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

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.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

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.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

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.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

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

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Fight with a happy heart.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

As for our majority… one is enough.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

And 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.

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.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.