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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

All the oxygen of the world was in them. All the feet of the babies of the world were in them. All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them. All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.

A million tomorrows shall all pass away 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.

And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

And that third dimension brings bliss. Bliss is without any opposite to it. It is serene, tranquil, cool. It is ecstasy without any excitement.

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.