The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

Success has got nothing to do with being happy. I've been very rich, and been unhappy, and I've been very poor, and been happy.

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I cannot imagine being happy anywhere else in the world but in Cape Town - South Africa in general, but Cape Town in particular.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

If I came in with the mindset of just being happy that I got drafted and just to settle for a backup job, that wouldn't be myself.

When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greatest gift you can give a girlfriend.

I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

There's no stopping same-sex dancing couples. I don't understand how people being happy can affect others so much - just let them be.

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

It's not me standing on the podium with medals. It's me being able to walk out with a smile on my face and truly being happy with myself.

I love playing football. I love being happy. I love playing games. I think that's going to be the ultimate deciding factor in where I go.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

It's not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that's just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only make the happy songs better.

I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

That's really the biggest thing, being happy in an organization that supports you and helps you grow and a city that supports you and a training staff.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

I've had a fantastic life so far; I'm lucky. I'd like the great role that changes everything, but at the moment, what's important is being happy in myself.

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.

Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy.

Success is when you see something, and you say, 'I want to do that,' and then you do it. It's being happy with what you do and doing what you love every day.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.

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.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

I've had moments in my career when I've made more money and had more success than at other times, but I've realized being happy has very little to do with any of that.

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