Bobby McFerrin

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

Happiness ain’t a thing in itself -it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain’t happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

My number one daily habit is to give myself permission to be happy. It’s physical and mental; it’s my diet, physical activity, and emotional state. That’s all tied together.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.