The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Where thou art, that is home.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

I have allergies, and I’ve had my share of nosebleeds, but that’s usually related to pollen.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

Health consists with temperance alone.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

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

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.