Jake Shimabukuro Quotes

If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.

I have an all-black Mahalo ukulele - it's like my baby. It has brought me so much peace and comfort.

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

I'm usually just enjoying life.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.

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

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

As long as folks are happy, I'm happy.

Any post I do on social media, any song, anything in general - I just try to promote positivity, because I felt like there's not enough positivity going around in the world.

We are here on this planet to add to the happiness of the world.

I'm gonna do a little radio, a little TV, and just create content in general and hopefully make the world a happier place.

I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.

Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.

If I have the perfect meal and I'm with the person I love most - what more can you want out of life?

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.

If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty.

My intention is never to hurt anybody. I'm happy when people are having a good time.

If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

You might not believe it...but you make the world a better place when you smile.

The best thing that you can do to this world is to be joyous. Being joyful, is the greatest offering you can make to the world.

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

But you're so busy changing the world Just one smile can change all of mine

Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.