Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
We were together. I forget the rest.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
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.
