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

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.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

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.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

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.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

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

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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

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.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

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.

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

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

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.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

You make more money if you’re generous.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

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.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.