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

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

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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

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

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

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

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