Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
