If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
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.
Being happy never goes out of style.
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.
I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!
The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.
Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.