A desire to be in charge of our own lives a need for control is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health and our success that we take control.

We need fundamental change. In the past national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Happiness or misery is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

I am happy as happiness goes for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.