If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

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.

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

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

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

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

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.