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 is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
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.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
