Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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.
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.
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.
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.