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.

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.

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

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

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

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.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

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

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.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

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

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

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.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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.

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

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Fun is good.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

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

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Money can’t buy life.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

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

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

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.

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