Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
Happy is he who causes a scandal
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.