Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

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 first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

Fun is good.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I am happy and I’m single.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

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.‘

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

You are victors, not victims!

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

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

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.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

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.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

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