The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

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.‘

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

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.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

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

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Love is trembling happiness.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

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.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

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.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

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

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

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.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I don’t have many sad days.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.