To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
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.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
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 is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
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.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think
