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

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

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

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

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

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.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

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

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

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

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

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

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Of course I get hurt.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Fear is real, but so is love.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

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.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

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

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

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.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

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

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

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

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.