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.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.