My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Man never thinks himself happy but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

I believe the right question to ask respecting all ornament is simply this, was it done with enjoyment was the carver happy while he was about it?

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying or by being lied to.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God both without us and within us.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

How to gain how to keep how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do and of all they are willing to endure.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

It is very important to generate a good attitude a good heart as much as possible. From this happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation the man of manly character and of wisdom.

`I have no name: / I am but two days old.' / What shall I call thee? / `I happy am / Joy is my name.' / Sweet joy befall thee!

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Italy and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness but enables us to move back from it a little.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Happiness is found in doing not merely possessing.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute for half an hour for a day for a month but I can give. I am very happy to do that I want to do that.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment by every man of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness not by each other's misery.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Indeed I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Send forth the child and childish man together and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

I bear a charmed life.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right we lose an unhappy marriage as well and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered what a lovely adventure begins hurricanes and all.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources those who are poor illiterate and ridden with terminal disease.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

I want anyone who believes in life liberty pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force any person any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success I want that organization that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart live for it die for it and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I don't know what to say. I'm happy to win MVP in Philadelphia. The booing was just hurtful. But it's not going to ruin this day for me.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives in so many ways.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely on what you think.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

When what we are is what we want to be that's happiness.

We must be doing something to be happy.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy when you are really happy Joseph Campbell

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art after all but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

The person who is wedded to Truth and Love would need nothing more for peace and happiness. When Creation is witnessed through these values it becomes holy scripture an inspiring lesson and guide.

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings in acquiring knowledge in eating and in business becomes happy.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing, when we have made it the next wish is to change again.

You can be happy where you are.

Mankind can find happiness only in unity not in diversity.

With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others one can attain happiness in any group or community and the very eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service.Nowadays we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve but there is great worth in service.

Sad people dislike the happy and the happy the sad, the quick thinking the sedate and the careless the busy and industrious.

IF you feel you must have something to be happy pray to God God you have the responsibility to keep me healthy happy good and intelligent, give me this thing which I believe is necessary for my happiness, but if you think I am wrong give me whatever you think best . God will never desert His obligation. He will feed you and foster you.

Service has been defined as Love made manifest . Baba repeatedly asks us to expand our hearts to include all humanity. He tells us that to care only for our own interests and those of our families is a constriction of our heart. Such constriction eventually results in loneliness and unhappiness -- as indeed we can see all around us for it is the malady of the present age.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

We've been through so much. When I try to play the game I try to please him. So when he's happy with my performance it makes me happy because I learned the game from him. He taught me how to play.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

When grace is joined with wrinkles it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion anger fear and sadness and to me they're of equal value to happiness excitement and inspiration.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Pity would be no more / If we did not make somebody poor, / And Mercy no more could be/ If all were as happy as we.

Happiness does not lie in happiness but in the achievement of it.

When I was waiting tables washing dishes or mowing lawns for money I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path my own journey an American journey where I could think for myself decide for myself define happiness for myself.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Where fear is happiness is not.

Rashness is the faithful but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Who is there who has not been overcome by the ravages of time? What beggar has attained glory? Who has become happy by contracting the vices of the wicked?

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.

Those men who are happy in this world who are generous towards their relatives kind to strangers indifferent to the wicked loving to the good shrewd in their dealings with the base frank with the learned courageous with enemies humble with elders and stern with the wife.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I am happy with the way my career went and I am happy with the way it ended.

To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire of beauty.

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

How can people be made happy in a petty kingdom? What peace can we expect from a rascal friend? What happiness can we have at home in the company of a bad wife? How can renown be gained by instructing an unworthy disciple?

Use do not abuse, neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever and we'll meet now and then when we wish in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

The followers of each religion call upon One God who is omnipresent and listens to their prayers be they from any race or whatever language they speak, but it is the same God who confers happiness on all of mankind.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

It's a helluva start being able to recognize what makes you happy.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy and prosperous being, and happiness, health and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

Friends show their love in times of trouble not in happiness.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

In friendship as well as love ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger else it must be pressed small like Chinese feet, her happiness is to be made as cakes are by a fixed recipe.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Willingness to compromise with others Sai Baba

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy, if not you'll become a philosopher.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.

Think of your servants with kindness consider their happiness and comfort and never demand of them that extremity of service which you yourself would not care to perform were you in their place.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all.

One of the sanest surest and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Let the day dawn for you and others with thought of the Almighty the Compassionate and the Omnipresent self-knowing God. What greater service can you do to yourself and others? This will give you health and happiness.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Money is human happiness in the abstract, he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Let all beings in all the worlds be happy). Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

There is no disease (so destructive) as lust, no enemy like infatuation, no fire like wrath, and no happiness like spiritual knowledge.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy, today they peer beyond the seven seas bury themselves waist deep in tidings and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges France for sun women for love life for happiness.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way, or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - That is when I get in trouble.