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

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

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

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

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

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

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

What you guys want, I’m for.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

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.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Money can’t buy life.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Peace begins with a smile.

Hatred is settled anger.

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

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

Science is nothing but perception.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

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

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

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

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.