"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
"There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease."
"Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness."
"Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations."
"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him."
"I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on."
"No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting."
"My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit."
"More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness."
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
"Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult."
"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
"I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about."
"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."
"Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!"
"My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog."
"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."
"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."
"I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense."
"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."
"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
"Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others."
"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."
"You can’t define happiness, it is in you, and you have to just explore it."
"If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular."
