The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

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

The earth laughs in flowers.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

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

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

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.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

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

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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

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.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.