The earth laughs in flowers.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

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

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Lost time is never found again.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

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

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.