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

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.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.

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.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

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.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.