When wealth is lost nothing is lost when health is lost something is lost when character is lost all is lost.
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
If you asked somebody 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement knowledge ' God knows - I mean many many different things but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
While I gave up God a long time ago I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man I shall be satisfied.
My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Getting married for me was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release that we have something more important than our separate selves and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Although the skills aren't hard to learn finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat is what makes a really good restaurant.