Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

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

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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