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

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

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

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

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.

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

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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.

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.

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.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

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.