Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

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

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

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

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget 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.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

I don’t have many sad days.

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.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

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

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

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.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.