Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

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

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.

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

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

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

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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

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

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

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.