I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
