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.
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.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
We were together. I forget the rest.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
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.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
