Happiness is not merely a word. It is a state of mind.
My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It’s been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.
When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all.
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.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
I don’t get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing – that around the world everybody’s after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that’s what happiness is all about.
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
