Quotes About Happiness

I indulge in Jell-O, pastries and my husband's home-baked chocolate-chip cookies.

One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or the U.S., if your country doesn't grow, you're in trouble. But we all know that beyond a certain level of material need, further material acquisition doesn't make people happier.

Why would you lock yourself in a situation that may not make you happy? I think that's highly inefficient.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.

There's a huge number of people I'm inevitably responsible towards but my biggest responsibility is towards myself. I need to be happy with what I am doing.

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

If you are enjoying yourself its infectious.

More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

If I've influenced people, so be it, but I don't dwell on those kinds of things. I just put out my music. If I influence someone without knowing it, I'm happy about it. I try not to think about those things because it's not about me.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

A lot of people have an opinion. If you listen to them too much, your work will get influenced, and you make no one happy.

Chocolate is the go-to ingredient for many people. It is the thing people crave when they are happy and celebrate; it is also the go-to ingredient for many people when we are sad or depressed. It makes us feel better.

Giving my contribution to protect and respect the environment, as well as its inhabitants, makes me feel happy.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.

I'd set up the Khan Academy as a not-for-profit in 2008, but I was doing well in my job and initially thought I could fund the Academy myself. But by 2009, I was getting so much good feedback that I told my wife that I wanted to do this full time. We had some funds to fall back on, and I knew doing this made me happy.

I have inner peace; I have accomplished a great deal.

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

SpongeBob is an innocent, and people respond to an innocent. I don't think it matters if you're young or old.

We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'

Ananya is a very happy soul, who won't get bogged down by insecurities. I have told her to not imitate anyone.