If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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.
