If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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.
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.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
