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

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

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.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

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.

William Maxwell’s my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for ‚The New Yorker‘ called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in ‚The New Yorker‘ in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did – about emotions and places.

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

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

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

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

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

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

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

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

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

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

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

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

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

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘