Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
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.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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.
