Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.

I am happy with the roles I play.

Cartoons make kids happy, and that's a great feeling.

Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.

It's important to feel good.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!

Where there is love, there is joy.

I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

All we sell is the Greatest feeling on Earth

Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.

"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

Anything that you really pour your heart and soul into is always rewarding. The most rewarding thing is probably making each other laugh.

Happy is what happens when all your dreams come true.

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.