He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
We were together. I forget the rest.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
