Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I don’t mean to be cocky, but if I’m never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

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

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Love is trembling happiness.

It’s a funny old world.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

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.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.