Quotes About Happiness

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.

As a performer, you want your audience to have as much fun as you are having on stage.

I'm always looking for bigger audiences and bigger stages. Really, however I can reach my fans is what will make me happy - well, I'll actually probably never be happy.

I equate physical activity with happiness not just from the perspective of producing endorphins but also from the perspective of really moving through emotions and getting stagnant energy to move through our body.

There's nothing more daunting than a musical, but there's also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing treacle up stairs.

Satisfaction is a major player in the happiness stakes.

I remember relishing the aloo pakodas at a stall near Dover Lane back in my younger days.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel like my skills are fading, I just won't do it publicly.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

Someone who is comfortable, someone who is happy, you see them immediately sit up, stand up and feel better about themselves. If you're able to capture that in a picture, that's the most beautiful picture you can ever take of someone.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

If I'm demanding and have high standards, I'm happy about that.

Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different... in the end, it has made me the happiest.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.