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.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.
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.
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.
We were together. I forget the rest.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.