Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
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.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
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.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.