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

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

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

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.