There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

It is important to remember yourself.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

The earth laughs in flowers.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

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

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Fun is good.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

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.

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

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

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

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

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

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

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

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.