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 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.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

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.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

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

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

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

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

My life is mine to remember.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Each day provides its own gifts.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

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.

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.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

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

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.