Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

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.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Every summer’s mine.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

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.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

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

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

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

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

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

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

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

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

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

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

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

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.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.