The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

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

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

I am two with nature.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

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.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

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.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Confine yourself to the present.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

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

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

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.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

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

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

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

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.