Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

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 only want my work to make people happy.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

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.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

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 may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

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.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

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!

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

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

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

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 was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Life well spent is long.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.