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

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

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

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

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

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

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

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

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

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

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.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.