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.

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.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

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

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

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

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

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.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

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

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

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

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

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.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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

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

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

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Simplify, simplify.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?