Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

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