Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

We were poor, but we smiled.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.