I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.

Boredom is for the selfish.

If you are happy then you are the winner in the race we call life.

We may be happy but just don't know it yet. Many want to rebuke themselves for not finding the threshold of well-being, since they simply haven't learnt to be nice to themselves and to enjoy the...

When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the uncared block:...

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay.

Every single day you make a choice, to be happy and enjoy the ride... or to be sad worrying about your life. The choice is yours.

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become our constant companions for the rest of our lives.

Happiness is this dance where we come closer and move apart without losing each other. It is even made of the tears of long separations on the condition that reunions come.

Do not presume that richness or poorness will bring you happiness.

There is a black-and-white picture in my hallway, of me, Nancy, and Lizzie in the bath, when Nancy was eight months old and Lizzie two-and-a-half. I am gently biting Lizzie. Nancy, in turn, is gumming...

But the real key to remember is that happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Starting today, learn more, laugh more and do what you truly love to do.

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig,...

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this...

It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked...

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, in-built, expectation of happiness, and...

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. {By Moonlight}

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.