Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

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

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing – not the ‚what happens‘ but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

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

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

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.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

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.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

The earth laughs in flowers.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

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.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.