Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The moderation of those who are happy arises from the calm which good fortune bestows upon their temper.
The will of man is his happiness.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
How happy many people would be if they cared about other people's affairs as little as about their own.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Happiness is a rarer vocation than people suppose.
We must then meditate on the things that make our happiness, seeing that when that is with us we have all, but when it is absent we do all to win it.
Blessed is he who has overcome all passions and then proceeds energetically to perform his duties under all circumstances careless of success! Let the motive lie in the deed, not in the outcome.
Happiness is a good flow of life.
Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
The more a class of beings possesses the faculty of contemplation, the more it enjoys happiness, not as an accidental concomitant of contemplation but as inherent in it, since contemplation is valuable in itself. It follows that happiness is some form of contemplation.
Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
Ah, who brings the happy moments, Glorious days of sweet first love; Who can bring back a single hour Of that blessed time again.
It is very true that we ought to think of the happiness of others; but it is not often enough said that the best thing we can do for those who love us is to be happy ourselves.
Pleasure is the beginning and end of the blessed life.
It is through their completeness that souls are happy.
Happy the man who observes the heavenly and the terrestrial law in just proportion.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
No one can do anything for the happiness of others if he cannot be happy himself.
He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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