Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.
Sugar brings happiness. Eating it once or twice a week in a dessert, that’s what life is about. There is nothing wrong with it.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Don’t depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That’s when good things come around – when you do your own thing and you’re not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
I get way too much happiness from good food.
As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.
The culture of a workplace – an organization’s values, norms and practices – has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
