We were together. I forget the rest.

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.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

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

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

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

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

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.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

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

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.