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

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

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

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but 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.

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

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

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.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

O 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.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

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.

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

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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

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?

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

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.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

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