To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

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.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

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.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

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.

We were poor, but we smiled.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

The earth laughs in flowers.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

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.

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

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

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.

Fight with a happy heart.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.