Quotes About Happiness

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

Our goals must be to find new, environmentally-friendly ways by which to continue the art of creation, to utilize our valuable human skills, and to make things that will bring joy.

I've been blessed in so many ways.

I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.

I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?'

We've got to, in many ways, start thinking more like mayors who think about issues as problems that need to be solved as opposed to an issue through a specific ideological bent. Americans would be much better served and they'd be a lot happier with their elected officials.

Obviously, there were ways to have made a lot more money and to have had more leisure. But I wouldn't choose that. I feel rich in ways that are unique and that I would never trade for tens of millions of dollars in the bank.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

When we go to the pitch, that's all we want to do - we want to win - and when the game finishes, if you win, you go home happy.

When I am happy on the pitch, it's because everything is going well off it.

I am just happy about every minute I can be on the pitch.

It's important on the pitch to have fun, to enjoy the game, because it generates a good feeling around the club.

I think I am someone who is happy playing football. It is just that. Whenever I go onto the pitch, I always try and be happy. That is the big motivation that I have always had. Nothing else.

I have to look for my happiness, and that is being out on the pitch, playing well, and scoring goals. That makes me happy.

Now I've learned to enjoy my football while I can. Every time I'm on the pitch, I just enjoy it.

Anyone who was been injured for a long period can emphasise how happy you are when you are able to be back on the pitch.

I'm not looking into the future. I take every game as it comes, and as long as I am on the pitch and playing football, that is what keeps me happy.

The main thing is to be on the pitch and enjoy my football.

I want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler. I'm happy that I'm still a Pittsburgh Steeler. Hopefully we can work out a long-term deal, and I can be a Steeler for my entire career.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.