Quotes About Happiness

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.

True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest people in the world don't have a crying quarter, but they've got all the things that mean a lot to them.

My favorite part about being a father is playing toys with them, or watching movies with them, really just playing around with them. They bring a lot of joy in to my life, even when I'm having a bad day. Just to come home and see them smiling brings so much joy to my life.

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

When you're two, three, four years old, it's not really modelling. You run around, and they give you toys in a fun place, and they take pictures of you playing.

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.

We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it.

I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

If you are able to enjoy what you do and doing it the best that you can, then you're on the right track.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

'Rather Be' and 'Real Love' are two of the most fun songs to perform; they're such feel-good tracks. 'Rather Be,' especially - I've sung it so many times, but I'm still not bored of it.

I'm so happy people have enjoyed listening to my tracks.

I would trade everything I have to have had a happier childhood.

I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I love being who I am. And I would not trade it for anything.

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.

I'm not going to be a guy that says, 'Oh I want to get traded' and then go to a situation where I'm not happy.

I wouldn't have traded my career path for anything.

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.