Quotes About Happiness

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

When my body and face were perfect as far as youth, I wasn't happy.

You become sillier and more youthful as you get older, maybe, because you're over all your anxieties.

Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.

I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

I'm having a lot of fun playing myself out there on YouTube and showing who I am and getting to do projects that make me happy versus satisfy what people think a girl should be doing.

One of the things I did, I would go, 'Dad, I know you don't know how to work YouTube, but wait until you see this concert. I found Hank Williams in 1940. And look at this.' Then that brings on memories and it brings happiness and it gives him a little extra breath in life.

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

If I'm feeling down, I'll fake smile. I'm trying to trick my brain into being happy. It might work one out of 50 times, but I'm getting there.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

My son taught me a few tricks about card games and Rishona spent time painting with me. She would also make us dalgona coffee at times. These small joys of family life have made me a very happy person.

You'd die very sad if you tried to make everyone in the world happy, you know what I mean? You can't; no one can.

I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that's the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you.

If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.