You can be happy where you are.

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

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

If you want to be happy be.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Be happy with what you have and are be generous with both and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

A table a chair a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?

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

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy amused way.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash but then the country picked itself up again and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

I wrote a novel for my degree and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them they must become happy.

If you're happy if you're feeling good then nothing else matters.