The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I think that success is having fun.

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?

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

The earth laughs in flowers.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

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

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

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.

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.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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 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.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

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.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.