In London, there is a section in a newspaper, the Metro, where people write in and thank strangers for their lovely or kind actions throughout the week. It brings me such happiness reading it and makes me know that, ultimately, human beings are amazing.
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
Love is the only effective counter to death.
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.
I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the first place. True happiness isn't a thing or a commodity, it's something you cultivate and share.
Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.
We're worn into grooves by Time-by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.