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

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

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.

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Peace is its own reward.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

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.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

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.

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

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.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

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

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Love is a serious mental disease.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The earth laughs in flowers.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

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

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

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

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

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

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

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

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.