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.

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.

I like being around people.

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.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I got my buzz from playing.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

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.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

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

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

Fight with a happy heart.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but 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.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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.‘

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

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

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

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

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.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.