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

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

My three children have brought me great joy.

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

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

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.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Men want to make women happy.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

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.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

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

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

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.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

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

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.

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.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

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

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.