Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
