Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

From caring comes courage.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

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.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

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

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I am happy and I’m single.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

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

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

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.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Money ain’t everything.

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

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

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.‘

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

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.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

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

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

You can be happy where you are.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.