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

I’m confident with my ability.

All of our problems start in our minds.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

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

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

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.‘

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

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.

Children are all foreigners.

I have good days and bad days.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Man is not made for defeat.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Fear is real, but so is love.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

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

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

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

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.‘

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

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.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

You can be happy where you are.

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

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.