Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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

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

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

My message is that God is a good God.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Compliment three people every day.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Everybody likes a compliment.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

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

Giving up cannot be an option.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

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.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

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

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.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

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.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

The earth laughs in flowers.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

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

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

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.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.