Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

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.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

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.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.