You can't be happy by doing something groovy.
A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.
The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
We must be doing something to be happy.
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
From being in Tibet and being around Tibetans, I feel like I've learned so much more about what brings a person happiness, about what actually brings myself happiness.
I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.
When people ask me, 'What do you do for fun?' - it's my family. That's it.
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
When I look at my longterm goals for the rest of my life, there are so many things other than performing that make me happy.
There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many a young English nobleman, and an Iroquois in the forest, or an Arab in the desert are compared, it will be found that their real sources of happiness are nearly the same.
What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.
I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.
The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.
A lot of our happiness is derived from experiences, not from buying products. People are twice as happy buying experiences as products. People are happy buying experiences. They don't want something that's commoditised.
I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.
I need to feel happy outside.
I'm not the most sophisticated person. I'm not the smartest person in the world. But, I know what makes me excited about life, from Spielberg movies to Michael Jackson music videos to cartoons on Saturday mornings, which made my childhood.
I'm focused on football and my career. No one really has to doubt that. Outside, I do other things that make me happy.
Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
There's a million ways to make people happy.
When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don't have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.
I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.
