The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

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.

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‘.

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

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

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

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

For greed all nature is too little.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

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.‘

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

I think that success is having fun.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.