You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

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

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

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

We were poor, but we smiled.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

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.

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

Money ain’t everything.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

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

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

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

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

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

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

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

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

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

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

I’m happiest with my family around me.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.