Quotes About Happiness

Everyone loves a comedy, my dear. It is divine.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

Joy is the grace we say to God.

you have to do something for yourself. The Declaration of Independence promises the pursuit of happiness. You got to work for it.

After we got McDonald's going and built a larger staff, they all called her "Mother Martino." She kept track of everyone's family fortunes, whose wife was having a baby, who was having marital difficulties, or whose birthday it was. She helped make the office a happy place. It

Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.

It is impossible to grant someone happiness. The best you can do, as the Declaration of Independence put it, is to give him the freedom to pursue happiness. Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's byproduct of achievement.

Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness.

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

La tristeza no tiene fin, la felicidad sí.

If everything that looks like love really were love, my God, this would be a different and better world and even the darkest nightmares would be followed by unbearably happy days.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

What the hell, it always rains in sad love stories. And in happy ones too. Must be a reason, though perhaps not necessarily metaphysical.

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

You don't have to say anything in particular or do anything in particular to be helpful to people. You become a bodhisattva by wishing for your own happiness as well as the happiness of others, and by opening to your own experience in a loving way. When you love yourself and are kind enough to yourself to be who you really are, you're showing others what they need to do in order to be free.

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

I had to figure out if I was happier being with a live woman or living with the memories of a dead one.

I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.

I'm happy to work until I'm 70 if I'm able to. Actually, I'm happy to keep writing as long as people keep buying my books.

To get an award for something you are having a ball doing is a real buzz.

I got my buzz from playing.