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It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

It's hard to find peace with your thighs, but when they chafe, try to be grateful for them. Your thighs let you run and get you where you want to go. I have not just thigh peace but thigh happiness, and it begins with thigh gratitude.

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.

It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

It was difficult to enjoy the trees and flowers when I was so aware of all that I had not yet done - pruning, weeding, transplanting, mulching, composting, tagging. When I was doing the work myself, I was happy, free.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth.

I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

It was probably a mistake to pursue happiness; much better to create happiness; still better to create happiness for others. The more happiness you created for others the more would be yours-a solid satisfaction that no one could ever take away from you.

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

I've've seen some people like this that no matter what happens they've got something cheerful to feel about it. It's not always easy, but if we do it as a deliberate sward of battle rather then thinking 'Well, I'm not really feeling that way and therefore I shouldn't say that I am'. No! Make yourself that way!

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.