The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

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.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

Peace begins with a smile.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Life well spent is long.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.