The '20s ended in an era of extravagance sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash but then the country picked itself up again and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
I wrote a novel for my degree and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them they must become happy.
If you're happy if you're feeling good then nothing else matters.
I'm not happy all the time and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
The stories that I want to tell especially as a director don't necessarily have a perfect ending because the older you get the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
As a real person he wouldn't last a minute would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it it was dull. If I was House's friend I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people do we?
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says Congratulations you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
One of the sanest surest and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights true religion affords to government it's surest support.
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.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not you'll become a philosopher.
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you'll become happy if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.