Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Heaven means to be one with God.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Smiles are the language of love.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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?

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.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Every wall is a door.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

I’m confident with my ability.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

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

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

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.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

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

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

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

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

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.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.