Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Just to eat is a gift.

There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

I like the joy when you feed people and they're happy and full and enjoying themselves.

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

I have long maintained that each of us has three chances a day to be happy: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I enjoy the small things.

We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.

If you are not happy, you will never be able to give happiness to others.

Sometimes I need people around me to remind me, to keep enjoying the small things.

I like to put a smile on people's faces.

I believe gratitude leads to happiness.

I found great rewards in cooking a dish and feeding it to someone. It was a means of communicating. I was giving part of my talent or my gift and sharing it with somebody, making somebody happy. And it gave a lot back to me, and I wanted to do more and more.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

I have never been happier or healthier than I am right now.

I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.