I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.
Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
The secret of health for both mind and body is. . . live the present moment wisely and earnestly.