The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

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 greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The earth laughs in flowers.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Real living is living for others.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

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

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.