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

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

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

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

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.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

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

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn’t even notice.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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

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

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

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

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 depends upon ourselves.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

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.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.