Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
Albert CamusYou give before you get.
Napoleon HillThe person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
Dale CarnegieEverything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.
Thich Nhat HanhMy religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai LamaGenerosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul SartreO wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
ChanakyaWhen 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.
Khalil GibranIf you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.
Napoleon HillThe important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Joseph AddisonTo give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
John RuskinWe must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
EpicurusMost people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.
Robert KiyosakiI can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen KellerLove has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
Katharine HepburnGetting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel JohnsonWe don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
William JamesA new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Jesus ChristAt times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert SchweitzerToo often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. KennedyYou 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.
Dan QuayleTo try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
J. Robert OppenheimerMaria is the best reason to come home.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas CarlyleMan is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor DostoevskyIt is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel KantI do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas JeffersonHappiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Napoleon HillThere are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador DaliIf you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.
Thich Nhat HanhConcentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
Haruki MurakamiWe cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
VoltaireThe revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James MadisonWe all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne FrankThere are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich NietzscheShared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich NietzscheThe essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
EpictetusPity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim RohnIf you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
Warren BuffettT stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.
Mr. TThe American people have not become heartless.
Joe BidenPuritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. MenckenI used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.
Joyce MeyerThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PlatoThe happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel JohnsonA good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin FranklinTake care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard ShawThe soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor DostoevskyThe most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-PowellSometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat HanhYour successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert CamusI’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
Dolly PartonMost people would rather give than get affection.
AristotleI tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.
Mr. TLove is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.A merry heart doeth good like medicine.
King SolomonLet not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!
Charles SpurgeonNever deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.