My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

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

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.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

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.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Peace begins with a smile.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

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.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

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.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

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.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

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.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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.