Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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.
If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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.
God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
