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

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

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

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

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‚all options are open‘ – meaning the threat of war.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Money ain’t everything.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

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

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

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.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.